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If a black hole has hair, how short can this hair be? A partial answer to this intriguing question was recently provided by the 'no-short hair' theorem which asserts that the external fields of a spherically-symmetric electrically neutral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-31 Shahar Hod

In this paper we study the properties of black holes and scalarons in Einstein gravity when it is minimally coupled to a scalar field $\phi$ with an asymmetric potential $V(\phi)$, constructed in [Phys. Rev. D \textbf{73} (2006), 084002] a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Xiao Yan Chew , Dong-han Yeom , Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo

The no-short hair theorem for static spherically symmetric black holes in general theory of relativity asserts that if a black hole has hair, that hair must extend beyond the lowest photon sphere radius of the black hole. This report…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Mandas Biswas

The successful observation of M87 supermassive black hole by the Black Hole Event Horizon Telescope(EHT) provides a very good opportunity to study the theory of gravity. In this work, we obtain the exact solution for the short hair black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-04 Meirong Tang , Zhaoyi Xu

It is shown that, under the separability assumption for the metric, the slow-rotation approximation for the Bocharova-Bronnikov-Melnikov-Bekenstein black hole in general relativity with a conformally coupled scalar field does not work…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-23 Sourav Bhattacharya , Hideki Maeda

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 a talk given in 2013, S. Hawking conjectured that the event horizon of black holes does not exist and suggested redefining black holes as bound states of the gravitational field. Inspired by this idea, we investigated the coupling of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 X. E. Wang

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

We construct and analyze BPS black hole solutions in gauged N=2, D=4 supergravity with charged hypermultiplets. A class of solutions can be found through spontaneous symmetry breaking in vacua that preserve maximal supersymmetry. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 Kiril Hristov , Hugo Looyestijn , Stefan Vandoren

We study static spherically symmetric solutions to the vacuum field equations of quadratic gravity in the presence of a cosmological constant $\Lambda$. Motivated by the trace no-hair theorem, we assume the Ricci scalar to be constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-26 Vojtech Pravda , Alena Pravdova , Jiri Podolsky , Robert Svarc

Black holes (BHs) with synchronized bosonic hair challenge the Kerr paradigm, linking superradiance from ultralight fields -- creating gravitational atoms -- to bosonic stars across parameter space. In the ''very hairy'' regime, where a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 Jordan Nicoules , José Ferreira , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Miguel Zilhão

We study a simple theory based on general relativity, minimally coupled to a constrained scalar triplet and to an auxiliary non-propagating three-form sector. Within a spherically symmetric hedgehog ansatz, the theory admits a continuous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Sebastian Bahamonde

In the theories of gravity with non-minimally coupled scalar fields there are "mavericks" -- unexpected solutions with odd properties, e.g., black holes with scalar hair in theories with scalar potential bounded from below. Probably the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Predrag Dominis Prester

The `no-hair' conjecture claims that for a spherically symmetric black hole, only the information regarding the mass and charge of the black hole is available to an external observer. However, there are numerous counterexamples to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-20 Avijit Chowdhury , Narayan Banerjee

This is a brief survey of the known black hole solutions in the theories of ghost-free bigravity and massive gravity. Various black holes exist in these theories, in particular those supporting a massive graviton hair. However, it seems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Mikhail S. Volkov

We study static and spherically symmetric black hole (BH) solutions in second-order generalized Proca theories with nonminimal vector field derivative couplings to the Ricci scalar, the Einstein tensor, and the double dual Riemann tensor.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Lavinia Heisenberg , Ryotaro Kase , Masato Minamitsuji , Shinji Tsujikawa

Symmetric teleparallel gravity is constructed with a nonzero nonmetricity tensor while both torsion and curvature are vanishing. In this framework, we find exact scalarised spherically symmetric static solutions in scalar-tensor theories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-05 Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , Laur Järv , Joosep Lember

Motivated by the study of holographic superconductors, we generalize no-hair theorems for minimally coupled scalar fields charged under an Abelian gauge field, in arbitrary dimensions and with arbitrary horizon topology. We first present a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Juan Fernandez-Gracia , Bartomeu Fiol

We construct spinning black holes (BHs) in shift-symmetric Horndeski theory. This is an Einstein-scalar-Gauss-Bonnet model wherein the (real) scalar field couples linearly to the Gauss-Bonnet curvature squared combination. The BH solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Jorge F. M. Delgado , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Eugen Radu

We obtain an exact static solution to Einstein-Power-Maxwell (EPM) theory in $(2+1)$ dimensional AdS spacetime, in which the scalar field couples to gravity in a non-minimal way. After considering the scalar potential, a stable system leads…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-12 Wei Xu , De-Cheng Zou