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Black hole hair: twenty--five years after

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Originally regarded as forbidden, black hole ``hair'' are fields associated with a stationary black hole apart from the gravitational and electromagnetic ones. Several stable stationary black hole solutions with gauge or Skyrme field hair are known today within general relativity. We formulate here a ``no scalar--hair'' conjecture, and adduce some new theorems that almost establish it by ruling out - for all but a small parameter range - scalar field hair of spherical black holes in general relativity, whether the field be self--interacting, coupled to an Abelian gauge field, or nonminimally coupled to gravity.

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Stable black hole solutions with cosmological hair

gr-qc · 2026-03-23 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Stable black hole solutions with cosmological scalar hair are explicitly derived in the cubic Galileon theory, recovering cosmological behavior at large distances and regular short-range dynamics.

The third wheel: ringdown and lensing of triple systems

gr-qc · 2026-05-19 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Numerical relativity simulations of triple black hole systems reveal redshift effects and gravitational lensing in ringdown signals from head-on mergers, with no additional black hole formation from amplified waves.

Weyl-type solutions with multipolar scalar fields

gr-qc · 2026-04-10 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

New exact solutions to d-dimensional Einstein-scalar gravity are generated in Weyl form that incorporate multipolar scalars and magnetic fields, with limits matching scalar versions of Schwarzschild-Melvin and Fisher-Janis-Newman-Winicour spacetimes.

Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment

gr-qc · 2025-05-29 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

A review summarizing the state of the art in black hole quasinormal modes, ringdown waveform modeling, current LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations, and prospects for LISA and next-generation detectors.

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  • Inspiral gravitational waveforms from charged compact binaries with scalar hair gr-qc · 2026-05-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 27 · internal anchor

    In Einstein-scalar-Maxwell theories, charged compact binaries produce gravitational waveforms containing a leading -1 post-Newtonian dipole correction controlled by one deviation parameter b.

  • Stable black hole solutions with cosmological hair gr-qc · 2026-03-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 7 · internal anchor

    Stable black hole solutions with cosmological scalar hair are explicitly derived in the cubic Galileon theory, recovering cosmological behavior at large distances and regular short-range dynamics.

  • The third wheel: ringdown and lensing of triple systems gr-qc · 2026-05-19 · unverdicted · none · ref 8 · internal anchor

    Numerical relativity simulations of triple black hole systems reveal redshift effects and gravitational lensing in ringdown signals from head-on mergers, with no additional black hole formation from amplified waves.

  • Weyl-type solutions with multipolar scalar fields gr-qc · 2026-04-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 27 · internal anchor

    New exact solutions to d-dimensional Einstein-scalar gravity are generated in Weyl form that incorporate multipolar scalars and magnetic fields, with limits matching scalar versions of Schwarzschild-Melvin and Fisher-Janis-Newman-Winicour spacetimes.

  • Black hole spectroscopy: from theory to experiment gr-qc · 2025-05-29 · unverdicted · none · ref 19 · internal anchor

    A review summarizing the state of the art in black hole quasinormal modes, ringdown waveform modeling, current LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observations, and prospects for LISA and next-generation detectors.