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It has recently been pointed out that particles falling freely from rest at infinity outside a Kerr black hole can in principle collide with arbitrarily high center of mass energy in the limiting case of maximal black hole spin. Here we aim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Ted Jacobson , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Rapidly rotating Kerr black holes can accelerate particles to arbitrarily high energy if the angular momentum of the particle is fine-tuned to some critical value. This phenomenon is robust as it is founded on the basic properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Tomohiro Harada , Masashi Kimura

We show that intermediate mass black holes conjectured to be the early precursors of supermassive black holes and surrounded by relic cold dark matter density spikes can act as particle accelerators with collisions, in principle, at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-08 Máximo Bañados , Joseph Silk , Stephen M. West

According to the Banados-Silk-West (BSW) process, rotating black holes can act as particle colliders capable of achieving arbitrarily high center-of-mass energy (CME), provided that a specific angular momentum of one of the particles is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 Bobur Turimov , Shuhrat Hayitov

The possibility that rotating black holes could be natural particle accelerators has been subject of intense debate. While it appears that for extremal Kerr black holes arbitrarily high center of mass energies could be achieved, several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-24 Stefano Liberati , Christian Pfeifer , José Javier Relancio

It has been shown that extremal Kerr black holes can be used as particle accelerators and arbitrarily high energy may be obtained near the event horizon. We study particle collisions near the event horizon (outer horizon) and Cauchy horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-12 Sijie Gao , Changchun Zhong

It has been suggested that maximally spinning black holes can serve as particle accelerators, reaching arbitrarily high center-of-mass energies. Despite several objections regarding the practical achievability of such high energies, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Sean T. McWilliams

It is shown that the Kerr black hole could act as accelerators for spinning particles. In principle, it could obtain arbitrarily high energy for extremal Kerr black hole. In this paper, we extend the previous research to the Kerr-(anti-)de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-20 Songming Zhang , Yunlong Liu , Xiangdong Zhang

In principle, rapidly rotating black holes (BHs) with accretion disks -- either prograde or retrograde -- could naturally act as high-energy particle colliders (HEPCs) because particles falling in from infinity that collide with particles…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Delilah E. A. Gates

We show that an extremal Gibbons-Maeda-Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger black hole may act as a particle accelerator with arbitrarily high energy when two uncharged particles falling freely from rest to infinity on the near horizon. We show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-04 Parthapratim Pradhan

A number of long-standing puzzles, such as the origin of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, could perhaps be solved if we found a mechanism for effectively transferring energy from black holes to particles and, correspondingly, accelerating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-12 S. Krasnikov , M. V. Skvortsova

Collisions of particles in black holes' ergospheres may result in an arbitrarily large center of mass energy. This led recently to the suggestion (Banados et al., 2009) that black holes can act as ultimate particle accelerators. If the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-16 Michał Bejger , Tsvi Piran , Marek Abramowicz , Frida Håkanson

It is well known that some black holes can act as accelerators for particles without spin. Recently, there are some works considering collision of two spinning particles in the background of Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes and it was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 Yu-Peng Zhang , Bao-Min Gu , Shao-Wen Wei , Jie Yang , Yu-Xiao Liu

It has recently been pointed out that the spinning Kerr black hole with maximal spin could act as a particle collider with arbitrarily high center-of-mass energy. In this paper, we will extend the result to the charged spinning black hole,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Heng Guo , Chun-E Fu

We investigate the possibility of arbitrarily high energy in the center of mass(CM) frame of colliding particles in the vicinity of the infinite red-shift surface of the spherically symmetric, static charged regular black holes (Bardeen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-14 Parthapratim Pradhan

Black holes have sometimes been described as astrophysical particle accelerators because finite energy particles can collide near the horizon with divergent center-of-mass (CM) energy. The collisions are classified by the radial motion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-12 Delilah E. A. Gates

Scattering of particles in the gravitational field of rotating black holes is considered. Expressions for scattering energy of particles in the centre of mass system are obtained. It is shown that scattering energy of particles in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-05 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

It has recently been pointed out that arbitrary center-of-mass energies may be obtained for particle collisions near the horizon of an extremal Kerr black hole. We investigate this mechanism in cylindrical topology. In particular we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Jackson Levi Said , Kristian Zarb Adami

It has been shown that black holes could be used as particle accelerators to create arbitrarily high center-of-mass (CM) energy if certain critical conditions are satisfied. Most studies so far are confined in four-dimensional spacetimes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-01 Jincheng An , Sijie Gao

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Andrew Mummery , Joseph Silk
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