Whilst stationary, asymptotically flat black holes have no hair in GR, non trivial configurations of fundamental fields can form around black holes in dynamical situations, and have a sufficiently long lifetime to be of astrophysical interest in a number of physically motivated scenarios. I will discuss how numerical studies can play a role in characterising the robustness of mechanisms that generate and support hair, and quantifying their potential impacts on gravitational observables.
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