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We examine the propagation of collisionless particles emitted from a spherical shell to infinity. The number distribution at infinity, calculated as a function of the polar angle, exhibits a small deviation from uniformity. The number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-20 Kentaro Takami , Yasufumi Kojima

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

A charge-free, point particle of infinitesimal mass orbiting a Kerr black hole is known to move along a geodesic. When the particle has a finite mass or charge, it emits radiation which carries away orbital energy and angular momentum, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yasushi Mino

In the context of the large extra dimensions or TeV-scale gravity, it has been argued that an effective naked singularity, called the visible border of spacetime, would be generated by high-energy particle collisions. Motivated by this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Masahiro Shimano , Umpei Miyamoto

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 consider near-horizon collisions between two particles moving freely in the Schwarzschild metric in the region outside the horizon. One of them emerges from a white hole. We scrutiny when such a process can lead to the indefinitely large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 A. V. Toporensky , O. B. Zaslavskii

We argue that the possibility of having infinite energy in the centre of mass frame of colliding particles is a generic property of rotating black holes. We suggest a general model-independent derivation valid for "dirty" black holes. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Oleg B. Zaslavskii

We consider collision of two particles in the axially symmetric black hole metric in the magnetic field. If the value of the angular momentum |L| of one particles grows unbound (but its Killing energy remains fixed) one can achieve unbound…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-25 O. B. Zaslavskii

The collision of two particles in the background of a Sen black hole is studied. With the equations of motion of the particles, the center-of-mass energy is investigated when the collision takes place at the horizon of a Sen black hole. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-23 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu , Hai-Tao Li , Feng-Wei Chen

Repulsive gravity is a well known characteristic of naked singularities. In this work, we explore light surfaces and find new effects of repulsive gravity. We compare Kerr naked singularities with the corresponding black hole counterparts…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-23 Daniela Pugliese , Hernando Quevedo

Motivated by the recent argument that in the TeV-scale gravity trans-Planckian domains of spacetime as effective naked singularities would be generated by high-energy particle (and black-hole) collisions, we investigate the quantum particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-06 Umpei Miyamoto , Hiroya Nemoto , Masahiro Shimano

Massive objects orbiting a near-extreme Kerr black hole quickly plunge into the horizon after passing the innermost stable circular orbit. The plunge trajectory is shown to be related by a conformal map to a circular orbit. Conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-07 Shahar Hadar , Achilleas P. Porfyriadis , Andrew Strominger

Particle collisions in black hole ergoregions may result in extremely high center of mass energies that could probe new physics if escape to infinity were possible. Here we show that some geodesics at high inclinations to the equatorial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Gariel , N. O. Santos , J. Silk

We propose a consistent analytic approach to the efficiency of collisional Penrose process in the vicinity of a maximally rotating Kerr black hole. We focus on a collision with arbitrarily high center-of-mass energy, which occurs if either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-28 Tomohiro Harada , Kota Ogasawara , Umpei Miyamoto

Gravitational collapse is one of the most fruitful subjects in gravitational physics. It is well known that singularity formation is inevitable in complete gravitational collapse. It was conjectured that such a singularity should be hidden…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Tomohiro Harada , Hideo Iguchi , Ken-ichi Nakao

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 consider collision of two particles near static electrically charged extremal black holes and elucidate the conditions under which the energy in the centre of mass frame E_{c.m.} grows unbounded. For a single black hole, we generalize…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-10 O. B. Zaslavskii

We explore the shadow of certain class generalized Kerr black holes, which are non vacuum solutions of the Einstein equations with exotic matter. The images depend on the angular momentum of the compact object, the characteristic parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-23 Vassil K. Tinchev

We study the collision of two highly boosted equal mass, nonrotating black holes with generic impact parameter. We find such systems to exhibit zoom-whirl behavior when fine tuning the impact parameter. Near the threshold of immediate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-29 U. Sperhake , V. Cardoso , F. Pretorius , E. Berti , T. Hinderer , N. Yunes

We report exotic orbital phenomena of spinning test particles orbiting around a Kerr black hole, i.e., some orbits of spinning particles are asymmetrical about the equatorial plane. When a nonspinning test particle orbits around a Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-07 Wen-Biao Han , Shu-Cheng Yang