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The generation of magnetic fields by a battery, operating in an ion-electron plasma around a Kerr black hole, is studied in the 3+1 split of the Kerr metric. It is found that the gravitomagnetic contributions to the electron partial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ramon Khanna

A model of nonlinear electrodynamics is proposed and investigated in general relativity. We consider the magnetic black hole and find a regular solution which gives corrections into the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m solution. At…

General Physics · Physics 2018-03-07 S. I. Kruglov

Dynamics of relativistic outflows along the rotation axis of a Kerr black hole is investigated using a simple model that takes into account the relativistic tidal force of the central source as well as the Lorentz force due to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Chicone , B. Mashhoon , B. Punsly

In this proceeding, we provide a novel approach to study the General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic (GRMHD) accretion flows around rotating black holes (BHs). In doing so, we choose a sub-Keplerian distribution of angular momentum of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 Samik Mitra

Works on the energy extraction from a rotating black hole via magnetic reconnection attract more attentions in recent years. Discussions on this topic, however, are often based on many simplifications, such as assuming a circularly flowing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-05 Ye Shen , Ho-Yun YuChih

Neutrino-cooled accretion flow around a spinning black hole, produced by a compact binary merger is a promising scenario for jet formation and launching magnetically-driven outflows. Based on GW170817 gravitational wave detection by LIGO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-06 Fatemeh Hossein Nouri , Agnieszka Janiuk , Małgorzata Przerwa

In this work, we provide a thorough analysis of energy extraction via magnetic reconnection, a novel mechanism recently proposed by Comisso and Asenjo, for a Kerr-Newman black hole immersed in a perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM) background.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Shanshan Rodriguez , Alex Sidler , Leo Rodriguez , L. R. Ram-Mohan

Magnetized accretion onto spinning black holes can accumulate a large magnetic flux across the event horizon and launch a pair of relativistic jets via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. In the magnetically saturated (arrested) state, excess…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-30 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Mateusz Kapusta , Bart Ripperda , Alexander A. Philippov

Using relativistic, axisymmetric, ideal MHD, we examine the outflow from a disk around a compact object, taking into account the baryonic matter, the electron-positron/photon fluid, and the large-scale electromagnetic field. Focussing on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nektarios Vlahakis , Arieh Konigl

High resolution radio imaging of AGN have revealed that some sources present motion of superluminal knots and transverse stratification of their jet. Recent observational projects have provided new observational constraints on the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 L. Chantry , V. Cayatte , C. Sauty , N. Vlahakis , K. Tsinganos

The high-energy particle production in the accretion flow onto black holes can be a key physics to explain the high-energy neutrino background. While the single-zone approximation has been commonly adopted in studies of the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Tomohisa Kawashima , Katsuaki Asano

In this study, we explore the influence of quantum gravitational corrections, derived from Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), on the efficiency of the magnetic Penrose process (MPP) in black hole (BH) environments. We begin by analyzing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Tursunali Xamidov , Pankaj Sheoran , Sanjar Shaymatov , Tao Zhu

The effect of a mass-loading of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) flow in a relativistic jet from active galactic nuclei (AGN) due to $\gamma\gamma\rightarrow e^+e^-$ conversion is considered analytically. We argue that the effects of charge…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-19 E. E. Nokhrina , V. S. Beskin

Based on the magnetic reconnection mechanism, this study investigates how to extract energy effectively from an accelerating Kerr black hole in the plunging region and circular orbit region. After introducing the properties of accelerating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Ke Wang , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

This Letter analyzes 3-dimensional simulations of Kerr black hole magnetospheres that obey the general relativistic equations of perfect magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). Particular emphasis is on the event horizon magnetosphere (EHM) which is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Brian Punsly

The center of mass (CM) energy in a collisional Penrose process - a collision taking place within the ergosphere of a Kerr black hole - can diverge under suitable extreme conditions (maximal Kerr, near horizon collision and suitable impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-02 Elly Leiderschneider , Tsvi Piran

The electromagnetic field near a rotating black hole is being explored in educational style here. By employing analytic solutions for electrovacuum fields, we plot the surfaces of constant flux and we show how the field is dragged around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Budinova , M. Dovciak , V. Karas , A. Lanza

Accretion flows onto underluminous black holes, such as Sagittarius A* at the center of our galaxy, are dilute (mildly collisional to highly collisionless), optically thin, and radiatively inefficient. Therefore, the accretion properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Tanim Islam

Using the generally covariant magnetofluid formalism for a hot plasma, a new curvature (of space time) driven mechanism for generating seed vorticity/magnetic field is presented. The "battery" owes its origin to the interaction between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-09 Swadesh M. Mahajan , Felipe A. Asenjo

We present a novel systematic framework for engineering energy-momentum tensors in linearized gravity that generate gravitational fields with a prescribed multipolar structure, aimed at modeling black hole mimickers. As a concrete example,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Claudio Gambino