Static hairy black hole in 4D General Relativity

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new static black hole solution in 4D general relativity with gravitational hair, deforming Schwarzschild geometry and characterized by an external gravitational field, without singularities outside the horizon.

Contribution

It presents a novel static black hole solution with gravitational hair in 4D GR, extending Schwarzschild by adding a parameter related to an external field, breaking asymptotic flatness.

Findings

The new solution has an oblate horizon and reduced area.

Conserved charges and thermodynamics are analyzed.

No curvature or conical singularities outside the horizon.

Abstract

In four-dimensional vacuum general relativity the only known static, exact and analytical black hole solution is given by the Schwarzschild spacetime. In this paper this renowned metric is generalised by adding another integrating constant, a hair that switches the metric from the Petrov type D to the type I. This new parameter represents the intensity of an external gravitational field, which can be considered the hyperbolic generalisation of the Witten's bubble of nothing. No curvature or conical singularities are present outside the event horizon. The no hair arguments are circumvented because the metric is not asymptotically flat, and neither the black hole is spherical. The gravitational hair continuously deforms the Schwarzschild geometry: the horizon becomes oblate, while its area is reduced. Conserved charges and thermodynamic properties of the black hole are studied.