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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.

Ringdown and lensing of triple systems

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

Head-on black-hole mergers next to a companion show Doppler- and redshift-shifted ringdown, lensing magnification behind the lens, and delayed echo images, with only tentative signs of resonant mode excitation.

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.

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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.

  • Ringdown and lensing of triple systems gr-qc · 2026-05-19 · conditional · none · ref 8 · internal anchor

    Head-on black-hole mergers next to a companion show Doppler- and redshift-shifted ringdown, lensing magnification behind the lens, and delayed echo images, with only tentative signs of resonant mode excitation.

  • 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 · unreviewed · ref 19 · internal anchor