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In our paper we investigate the lower limit of collisional energy of test particles near the Kerr black hole. In particular we examine the minimal Lorentz factor between the freely falling particles and the particles orbiting around a black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-20 Mieszko Rutkowski

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

We study the spacetime noncommutative effect on black hole as particle accelerators and, find that particle falling from infinity with zero velocity cannot collide with unbound energy when the noncommutative Kerr black hole is exactly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-22 Chikun Ding , Changqing Liu , Qian Guo

Ba\~nados $et\, al.$ (BSW) found that Kerr black holes can act as particle accelerators with collisions at arbitrarily high center-of-mass energies. Recently, collisions of particles with spin around some rotating black holes have been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-08 Jie Jiang , Sijie Gao

Finite-energy particles in free fall can collide with diverging center-of-mass energy near rapidly rotating black holes. What are the most salient observational signatures of this remarkable geometric effect? Here we revisit the problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-09 Delilah E. A. Gates , Shahar Hadar

We investigate here the particle acceleration and high energy collision in the Kerr geometry containing a naked singularity. We show that the center of mass energy of collision between two particles, dropped in from a finite but arbitrarily…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-17 Mandar Patil , Pankaj S. Joshi

We consider a process where two identical massive particles fall inwards, starting from rest at infinity towards the extremal Kerr black hole, collide outside the event horizon in its vicinity and produce two massless particles. The center…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-07 Mandar Patil , Tomohiro Harada

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

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 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

Scattering of particles in the gravitational field of rotating black holes is considered. It is shown that scattering energy of particles in the centre of mass system can obtain very large values not only for extremal black holes but also…

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

Collisions of particles near a rotating black hole can lead to unbound energies $E_{c.m.}$ in their centre of mass frame. There are indications that the Killing energy of debris at infinity can also be unbound for some scenarios of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 O. B. Zaslavskii

Two particle collisions close to the horizon of the rotating nonextremal Kerr's and Schwarzschild black holes are analyzed. For the case of multiple collisions it is shown that high energy in the centre of mass frame occurs due to a great…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-23 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov , O. F. Piattella

The aim of the paper is the consideration of particle collisions in the vicinity of the horizon of rotating black holes. Existence of geodesics for massive and massless particles arising from the region inside of the gravitational radius in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-09 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

Arguments are given for the conclusion that the energy of collision of two ultrarelativistic elementary particles due to gravitational radiation cannot exceed the Planck value. Comparison of the gravitational and electromagnetic radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-29 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

We investigate here the particle acceleration by Kerr naked singularities. We consider a collision between particles dropped in from infinity at rest, which follow geodesic motion in the equatorial plane, with their angular momenta in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-17 Mandar Patil , Pankaj S. Joshi

The escape fraction at infinity is evaluated for massless particles produced in collisions of weakly interacting particles accreted into a density spike near the particle horizon of an extremal Kerr black hole, for the case of equatorial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-28 Máximo Bañados , Babiker Hassanain , Joseph Silk , Stephen M. West

On the basis of the Kerr metric as a model for a spinning black hole accreting test particles from rest at infinity, I show that the center-of-mass energy for a pair of colliding particles is generically divergent at the inner horizon. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kayll Lake

On the lines of the 4-dimensional Kerr black hole we consider the particle acceleration near a 5-dimensional Kerr black hole which has the two rotation parameters. It turns out that the center of mass energy of the two equal mass colliding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-12 Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Naresh Dadhich , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Husan Eshkuvatov

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