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There are known models of spherical gravitational collapse in which the collapse ends in a naked shell-focusing singularity for some initial data. If a massless scalar field is quantized on the classical background provided by such a star,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-31 Tomohiro Harada , Hideo Iguchi , Ken-ichi Nakao , T. P. Singh , Takahiro Tanaka , Cenalo Vaz

We analyze scenarios of particle collisions in the metric of a nonextremal black hole that can potentially lead to ultrahigh energy $E_{c.m.}$ in their centre of mass frame. Particle 1 comes from infinity to the black hole horizon while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 O. B. Zaslavskii

Primordial black hole formation has been discussed widely, when density perturbations in the early universe cause matter to collapse gravitationally, giving rise to these ultra-compact objects. We propose and point out that such a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 Pankaj S. Joshi , Sudip Bhattacharyya

We study collision of particles in the vicinity of a horizon of a weakly magnetized non-rotating black hole. In the presence of the magnetic field innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO) of charged particles can be located close to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Valeri P. Frolov

It has been suggested that rotating black holes could serve as particle colliders with arbitrarily high center-of-mass energy. Astrophysical limitations on the maximal spin, back-reaction effects and sensitivity to the initial conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-14 Emanuele Berti , Vitor Cardoso , Leonardo Gualtieri , Frans Pretorius , Ulrich Sperhake

We study the collision of two geodesic particles in the accelerating and rotating black hole spacetime and probe the effects of the acceleration of black hole on the center-of-mass energy of the colliding particles and on the high-velocity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Weiping Yao , Songbai Chen , Changqing Liu , Jiliang Jing

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

We demonstrate that the spinning LQG black hole can act as a cosmic particle accelerator. The LQG solution is singularity-free and can possess spin greater than that of a Kerr black hole. The additional black hole hair, arising from quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-09 Ullas P. Suresh , Karthik R , K. M. Ajith , Kartheek Hegde , Shreyas Punacha , A. Naveena Kumara

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 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

We study singularities which can form in a spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a general matter field obeying weak energy condition. We show that no energy can reach an outside observer from a null naked singularity. That means…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-17 Shrirang S. Deshingkar

In this chapter, we study special photon orbits defined by means of Killing vectors and present a framework based on the properties of such null orbits. For concreteness, we restrict ourselves to the case of axially symmetric spacetimes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Daniela Pugliese , Hernando Quevedo

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

High-energy astrophysical sources such as active galactic nuclei, quasars, X-ray binaries, and gamma-ray bursts are powered by mechanisms that convert gravitational or rotational energy into radiation, jets, and relativistic outflows.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Parth Bambhaniya , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

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

Naked singularities (NkS) are solutions to the Einstein field equations that violate the cosmic censorship conjecture. Recent studies indicate that these objects may serve as compelling mimickers of black hole shadows. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-12 Akhil Uniyal , Indu K. Dihingia , Yosuke Mizuno , Włodek Kluźniak

Non-static, spherically symmetric clusters of counter-rotating particles, of the type first introduced by Einstein, are analysed here. The initial data space can be parameterized in terms of three arbitrary functions, namely; initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Jhingan , G. Magli

In this paper we consider rotating modified Hayward and rotating modified Bardeen black holes as particle accelerators. We investigate the center of mass energy of two colliding neutral particles with same rest masses falling from rest at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-25 Behnam Pourhassan , Ujjal Debnath

We investigate what are the key physical features that cause the development of a naked singularity, rather than a black hole, as the end-state of spherical gravitational collapse. We show that sufficiently strong shearing effects near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Pankaj S. Joshi , Naresh Dadhich , Roy Maartens

In this paper we have studied particle collisions around a charged dilaton black hole in 2+1 dimensions. This black hole is a solution to the low energy string action in 2+1 dimensions. Time-like geodesics for charged particles are studied…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-16 Sharmanthie Fernando