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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 1010's to 100100's of teraelectronvolt range, in other words a supercollider.

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@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

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