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Associated to every stationary extremal black hole is a unique near-horizon geometry, itself a solution of the field equations. These latter spacetimes are more tractable to analyze and most importantly, retain properties of the original…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Hari K. Kunduri

Massive spin-2 fields, which arise in proposed extensions of the standard model of particle physics and general relativity, give rise to a superradiant instability around spinning black holes. We study the nonlinear evolution of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-18 Taillte May , William E. East

The behavior of black hole horizons under extreme conditions-such as near collapse or phase transitions-remains less understood, particularly in the context of soft hair and Aretakis instabilities. We show that the breakdown of conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Pradosh Keshav MV , Arun Kenath

We analyze in detail the geometry and dynamics of the cosmological region arising in spherically symmetric black hole solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar field system with a positive cosmological constant. More precisely, we solve, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-05 João L. Costa , José Natário , Pedro Oliveira

In this paper, we present a nonlinear numerical investigation on the dynamical scalarization process of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole, incorporating an axionic scalar potential within the framework of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Yu-Peng Zhang , Si-Jiang Yang , Shao-Wen Wei , Wen-Di Guo , Yu-Xiao Liu

We investigate instability of 4-dimensional Reissner-Nordstr\"om-anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS$_4$) black holes with various topologies by charged scalar field perturbations. We numerically find that the RN-AdS$_4$ black holes become unstable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Kengo Maeda , Jun-ichirou Koga , Shunsuke Fujii

By using the Taylor series method and the solution-generating method, we construct exact black hole solutions with minimally coupled scalar field. We find that the black hole solutions can have many hairs except for the physical mass. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-13 Changjun Gao , Jianhui Qiu

We consider charged black holes with scalar hair obtained in a class of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models, where the scalar field is coupled to the Maxwell invariant with a quartic coupling function. Besides the Reissner-Nordstr\"om black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-04 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Sarah Kahlen , Jutta Kunz

Is it possible the no-hair paradigm is violated when a black hole undergoes an instability? Employing massless charged scalar perturbations, we address this question within the context of conformally invariant Einstein-Maxwell theory for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-01 Afsaneh Rahmani , Mohsen Khodadi , Matin Honardoost , Hamid Reza Sepangi

Recent research has revealed a novel nonlinear mechanism, distinct from the linear superradiant instability, which triggers the black hole bomb phenomenon. Introducing a massive complex scalar field with nonlinear self-interactions drives…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Lang Zhao , Lin Chen , Cheng-Yong Zhang

In this paper, we give a complete description of the black hole threshold, locally near the Reissner-Nordstr\"om family, in the infinite-dimensional moduli space $\mathfrak M$ of dynamical spherically symmetric solutions to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Yannis Angelopoulos , Christoph Kehle , Ryan Unger

We investigate possible end-points of the superradiant instability for a charged black hole with a reflecting mirror. By considering a fully coupled system of gravity and a charged scalar field, hairy black hole solutions are obtained. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-13 Supakchai Ponglertsakul , Sam Dolan , Elizabeth Winstanley

We establish a no inner-horizon theorem for black holes with charged scalar hairs. Considering a general gravitational theory with a charged scalar field, we prove that there exists no inner Cauchy horizon for both spherical and planar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-06 Rong-Gen Cai , Li Li , Run-Qiu Yang

We show that the horizon instability of the extremal Kerr black hole is associated with a singular branch point in the Green function at the superradiant bound frequency. We study generic initial data supported away from the horizon and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-07 Marc Casals , Samuel E. Gralla , Peter Zimmerman

We construct black holes with scalar hair in a wide class of four-dimensional N=2 Fayet-Iliopoulos gauged supergravity theories that are characterized by a prepotential containing one free parameter. Considering the truncated model in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-25 Federico Faedo , Dietmar Klemm , Masato Nozawa

A detailed description of how black holes grow in full, non-linear general relativity is presented. The starting point is the notion of dynamical horizons. Expressions of fluxes of energy and angular momentum carried by gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Abhay Ashtekar , Badri Krishnan

It has been shown recently that extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes perturbed by a minimally coupled, free, massless scalar field have permanent scalar hair. The hair - a conserved charge calculated at the black hole's event horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-19 Lior M. Burko , Gaurav Khanna , Subir Sabharwal

A Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole (RNBH) enclosed in a cavity is known to be superradiantly unstable to charged scalar perturbations below a critical frequency. Inspired by the emergence of the QCD axion as a prominent dark matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Bo-Wen Qin , Yu-Peng Zhang

We study static, spherically symmetric and electrically charged black hole solutions in a quadratic Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity model. Very similar to the uncharged case, black holes undergo spontaneous scalarization for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

In holographic applications one can encounter scenarios where a long-wavelength instability can arise. In such situations, it is often the case that the dynamical end point of the instability is a new equilibrium phase with a nonlinear…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Pablo Bosch , Alex Buchel , Luis Lehner