English

Ultimate Black Hole Recoil: What the maximum high energy collisions kick is?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2024-01-17 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We performed a series of 1381 full numerical simulations of high energy collision of black holes to search for the maximum recoil velocity after their merger. We consider equal mass binaries with opposite spins pointing along their orbital plane and perform a search of spin orientations, impact parameters, and initial linear momenta to find the maximum recoil for a given spin magnitude ss. This spin sequence for s=0.4,0.7,0.8,0.85,0.9s=0.4, 0.7, 0.8, 0.85, 0.9 is then extrapolated to the extreme case, s=1s=1, to obtain an estimated maximum recoil velocity of 28,562±34228,562\pm 342 km/s, thus approximately bounded by 10%10\% the speed of light.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2301.00018,
  title  = {Ultimate Black Hole Recoil: What the maximum high energy collisions kick is?},
  author = {James Healy and Carlos O. Lousto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.00018},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

8 figures, 1 Table