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It has been found that some charged, rotating black holes are unstable to the growth of a small, perturbing, massless scalar field. Additionally, there are strong indications that some uncharged black holes will be unstable to gravitational and electromagnetic perturbations as well.
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Detweiler et al. (1983) studied this question.
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