25–29 May 2026
Murcia, Spain
Europe/Madrid timezone

When regular black holes grow hair: scalarization beyond singular spacetimes

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20m
Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced (Murcia, Spain)

Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced

Murcia, Spain

Paraninfo Campus de la Merced C. Santo Cristo 1 30001 Murcia Spain

Speaker

Contreras, Ernesto (Universidad de Alicante)

Description

Regular black holes provide a compelling framework to address spacetime singularities through nonlinear electrodynamics, yielding geometries that remain well-behaved at all scales. In this work, we investigate their response to scalar field perturbations and the onset of spontaneous scalarization. Using a general inverse approach, we reconstruct the electromagnetic sector associated with a given solution and introduce a non-minimal scalar coupling. We show that this interaction can trigger a tachyonic instability, leading to scalarized black hole solutions and a non-trivial branch structure, including regions where scalarized configurations are thermodynamically preferred. We also discuss observational signatures, finding small but potentially measurable deviations in shadow size and quasi-normal mode spectra.

Author

Contreras, Ernesto (Universidad de Alicante)

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