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Black Holes in the Ghost Condensate

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We investigate how the ghost condensate reacts to black holes immersed in it. A ghost condensate defines a hypersurface-orthogonal congruence of timelike curves, each of which has the tangent vector u^\mu=-g^{\mu\nu}\partial_\nu\phi. It is argued that the ghost condensate in this picture approximately corresponds to a congruence of geodesics. In other words, the ghost condensate accretes into a black hole just like a pressure-less dust. Correspondingly, if the energy density of the ghost condensate at large distance is set to an extremely small value by cosmic expansion then the late-time accretion rate of the ghost condensate should be negligible. The accretion rate remains very small even if effects of higher derivative terms are taken into account, provided that the black hole is sufficiently large. It is also discussed how to reconcile the black hole accretion with the possibility that the ghost condensate might behave like dark matter.

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Testing Dark Energy with Black Hole Ringdown

gr-qc · 2026-03-24 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Dynamical dark energy imprints O(1) shifts on black hole quasi-normal modes via cosmological hair, enabling constraints at 10^{-2} (LVK) to 10^{-4} (LISA) precision using the cubic Galileon as example.

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  • Testing Dark Energy with Black Hole Ringdown gr-qc · 2026-03-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 44 · internal anchor

    Dynamical dark energy imprints O(1) shifts on black hole quasi-normal modes via cosmological hair, enabling constraints at 10^{-2} (LVK) to 10^{-4} (LISA) precision using the cubic Galileon as example.

  • Inverting no-hair theorems: How requiring General Relativity solutions restricts scalar-tensor theories gr-qc · 2025-03-07 · accept · none · ref 21 · internal anchor

    Requiring stealth Schwarzschild and de Sitter solutions in quadratic/cubic scalar-tensor theories eliminates odd-parity deviations from GR when all solutions are required, while allowing some deviations and non-trivial GW speeds in less restrictive cases.