12:20 PM - 12:30 PM (10 min)
Chloe Richards (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Abstract: Despite its success story to describe astrophysical phenomena, Einstein’s General Relativity is not a viable candidate for quantum gravity. Among the most popular extensions of general relativity are quadratic gravity theories. In this talk, we will present first results for black holes with a massive scalar field in dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, in which a dynamical pseudo-scalar field is coupled to the Pontryagin density. We have performed numerical relativity simulations of a single rotating black hole in this theory with a linear coupling of the scalar field.