Stability of spherically symmetric and time-independent solutions in five-dimensional general relativity is examined. It is shown that almost all the solutions are unstable for excitation of scalar monopole modes. Only the Schwarzschild black hole with a constant radius in the fifth dimension remains to be stable.
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