Schwarzschild Black Holes can Wear Scalar Wigs

Juan Barranco, Argelia Bernal, Juan Carlos Degollado, Alberto Diez-Tejedor, Miguel Megevand, Miguel Alcubierre, Darío Núñez, and Olivier Sarbach
Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 081102 – Published 22 August 2012

Abstract

We study the evolution of a massive scalar field surrounding a Schwarzschild black hole and find configurations that can survive for arbitrarily long times, provided the black hole or the scalar field mass is small enough. In particular, both ultralight scalar field dark matter around supermassive black holes and axionlike scalar fields around primordial black holes can survive for cosmological times. Moreover, these results are quite generic in the sense that fairly arbitrary initial data evolve, at late times, as a combination of those long-lived configurations.

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  • Received 11 May 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.081102

© 2012 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Juan Barranco1, Argelia Bernal2, Juan Carlos Degollado3, Alberto Diez-Tejedor1, Miguel Megevand2, Miguel Alcubierre2, Darío Núñez2, and Olivier Sarbach4

  • 1Departamento de Física, División de Ciencias e Ingeniería, Campus León, Universidad de Guanajuato, León 37150, Mexico
  • 2Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior Ciudad Universitaria, A.P. 70-543, México Distrito Federal 04510, Mexico
  • 3Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior Ciudad Universitaria, A.P. 70-264, México Distrito Federal 04510, Mexico
  • 4Instituto de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Edificio C-3, Ciudad Universitaria, 58040 Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico

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Vol. 109, Iss. 8 — 24 August 2012

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