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We study the dynamics of black holes in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theories that exhibit spontaneous black hole scalarization using recently introduced methods for solving the full, non-perturbative equations of motion. For one sign of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 William E. East , Justin L. Ripley

The singularitiy inside a spherical charged black hole, coupled to a spherical, massless scalar field is studied numerically. The profile of the characteristic scalar field was taken to be a power of advanced time with an exponent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Lior M. Burko

We construct spin-induced scalarized black hole solutions in a class of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models, where a scalar field is non-minimally coupled to the electromagnetic field. Our results show that scalar hair develops only for rapidly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Lang Cheng , Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang

Charge-dependent scalarization of the Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg (EEH) black hole is carried out in the EEH-scalar theory by introducing an exponential scalar coupling with $\alpha$ coupling constant to the Maxwell and nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Lina Zhang , Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou , Chao-Ming Zhang

We examine the interactions of a black hole with a massless scalar field using a coordinate system which extends ingoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates to dynamic spherically symmetric-spacetimes. We avoid problems with the singularity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Robert L. Marsa , Matthew W. Choptuik

There has been recent progress in extending the 0th and 2nd laws of black hole mechanics to gravitational effective field theories (EFTs). We generalize these results to a much larger class of EFTs describing gravity coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-25 Iain Davies

We investigate dyonic nonlinearly scalarized black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory. The domain of existence of scalarized dyonic black holes consists of three branches. The cold branch and the hot branch bifurcate at a minimal value…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-18 Shun Chen , Xiao Yan Chew , Jutta Kunz

Recently, a new nonlinear mechanism for black hole scalarization, different from the standard spontaneous scalarization, was demonstrated to exist for scalar Gauss-Bonnet theories in which no tachyonic instabilities can occur. Thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Kalin V. Staykov , Daniela D. Doneva

In this paper, we construct scalarized rotating black holes within the framework of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models. These models incorporate non-minimal couplings that can induce tachyonic instabilities, leading to the spontaneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Guangzhou Guo , Peng Wang , Houwen Wu , Haitang Yang

In the extended scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet theory, spontaneous scalarization in the GB\(^-\) regime typically occurs only in rotating black holes, while it is absent in spherically symmetric black holes, a phenomenon known as spin-induced…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-23 Lei Tang , Jie Jiang

We discuss spontaneous scalarization of the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole in the presence of higher derivative gauge field corrections that arise in the context of string, as well as higher-dimensional more fundamental gravity theories.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-26 Stella Kiorpelidi , Thanasis Karakasis , George Koutsoumbas , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

It is shown that there exists a range of parameters in which gravitational collapse with a spherically symmetric massive scalar field can be treated as if it were collapsing dust. This implies a criterion for the formation of black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Sergio M. C. V. Goncalves , Ian G. Moss

The phenomenon of spontaneous scalarisation of charged black holes (BHs) has recently motivated studies of various Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models. Within these models, different classes of BH solutions are possible, depending on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-25 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Jutta Kunz , Alexandre M. Pombo , Eugen Radu

In this paper, we find new scalarized black holes by coupling a scalar field with the Gauss-Bonnet invariant in Teleparallel gravity. The Teleparallel formulation of this theory uses torsion instead of curvature to describe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Sebastian Bahamonde , Daniela D. Doneva , Ludovic Ducobu , Christian Pfeifer , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

Ultra-light scalar fields provide an interesting alternative to WIMPS as halo dark matter. In this paper we consider the effect of embedding a supermassive black hole within such a halo, and estimate the absorption probability and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Arturo Urena-Lopez , Andrew R. Liddle

Recently new scalarized black hole solutions were constructed in the extended scalar-tensor-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, where the scalar field is sourced by the curvature of the spacetime via the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. A natural extension of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-05 Daniela D. Doneva , Stella Kiorpelidi , Petya G. Nedkova , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We study the scalar tidal responses of spinning higher-dimensional black holes, and their effective field theory description. After constructing the effective field theory of a spinning point particle in general dimension, we apply this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Daniel Glazer , Austin Joyce , Maria J. Rodriguez , Luca Santoni , Adam R. Solomon , Luis Fernando Temoche

Spontaneous scalarization in Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory admits both vacuum-general relativity (GR) and scalarized hairy black holes as valid solutions, which provides a distinctive signature of new physics in strong gravity regime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-05 Xi-Jing Wang , Yuan Meng , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Kai Liao

We study extreme mass-ratio binary systems in which a stellar mass compact object spirals into a supermassive black hole surrounded by a scalar cloud. Scalar clouds can form through superradiant instabilities of massive scalar fields around…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-27 Richard Brito , Shreya Shah

Continuously self-similar solution of spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a scalar field is studied to investigate quantum mechanical black hole formation by tunneling in the subcritical case where, classically, the collapse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Dongsu Bak , Sang Pyo kim , Sung Ku Kim , Kwang-Sup Soh , Jae Hyung Yee