Black holes in scalar-tensor gravity

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Feb 24;108(8):081103. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.081103. Epub 2012 Feb 24.

Abstract

Hawking has proven that black holes which are stationary as the end point of gravitational collapse in Brans-Dicke theory (without a potential) are no different than in general relativity. We extend this proof to the much more general class of scalar-tensor and f(R) gravity theories, without assuming any symmetries apart from stationarity.