Black hole supercolliders
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2025-06-03 v1
Abstract
We show that collisions between particles free falling from infinity and a disk of material plunging off the retrograde innermost stable circular orbit of a near-extremal Kerr black hole is the unique astronomically natural way in which to create a gravitational particle accelerator with center of mass energies at the 's to 's of teraelectronvolt range, in other words a supercollider.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2506.01437,
title = {Black hole supercolliders},
author = {Andrew Mummery and Joseph Silk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.01437},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. Version accepted in Physical Review Letters