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Penrose described a process that, in principle, could extract energy and angular momentum from a rotating black hole. Here we examine two procedures that were claimed to be capable of implementing the Penrose idea; both make use of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-20 Leon Heller

We investigate mechanisms of energy extraction from a rotating black hole in terms of negative energy-at-infinity. In addition to the Penrose process through particle fission, the Blandford-Znajek mechanism by magnetic tension, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shinji Koide , Kenzo Arai

Recent general relativistic MHD simulations have suggested that relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been powered by rotational energy of central black holes. Some mechanisms of extraction of black hole rotational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Shinji Koide , Tamon Baba

The Penrose process, a process that transfers energy from a black hole to infinity, together with the BSW mechanism, which uses collisions of ingoing particles at the event horizon of a black hole to locally produce large amounts of energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Duarte Feiteira , José P. S. Lemos , Oleg B. Zaslavskii

Energy extraction from a rotating or charged black hole is one of fascinating issues in general relativity. The collisional Penrose process is one of such extraction mechanisms and has been reconsidered intensively since Banados, Silk and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-15 Ken-ichi Nakao , Hirotada Okawa , Kei-ichi Maeda

We investigate the Penrose process of energy extraction in the context of rotating regular black holes. For the Neves-Saa class of regular black hole solutions, which includes the Bardeen, Hayward and Fan-Wang spacetimes as special cases,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Anjan Kar , Ayan Dey , Sayan Kar

In this paper, we study the electric Penrose energy extraction for charged particles in the spacetime of a covariant quantum-corrected Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. We first derive the equations of motion and effective potential for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Jiawei Chen , Jinsong Yang

This paper explores the circular geodesics of neutral test particles on an equatorial plane around a rotating black hole. After using equations of motion of scalar-tensor-vector gravity with the circular geodesics of null-like particles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-08 M. Shahzadi , Z. Yousaf , Saeed Ullah Khan

Spinning black holes create electromagnetic storms when immersed in ambient magnetic fields, illuminating the otherwise epically dark terrain. In an electromagnetic extension of the Penrose process, tremendous energy can be extracted,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Kshitij Gupta , Y. T. Albert Law , Janna Levin

For almost four decades, since the discovery of quasars, mounting observational evidence has accumulated that black holes indeed exist in nature. In this paper, I present a theoretical and numerical (Monte Carlo) fully relativistic 4-D…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Reva Kay Williams

In this paper, the Penrose process is being used to extract rotational energy from regular black holes. Initially, we consider the rotating Simpson-Visser regular spacetime which describes the class of geometries of the Kerr black hole's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-02 Vishva Patel , Kauntey Acharya , Parth Bambhaniya , Pankaj S. Joshi

The energy extraction from a magnetized Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole is analyzed within the framework of the electric Penrose mechanism. The presence of an external magnetic field induces an axisymmetric configuration and an ergosphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 A. Baez , Nora Breton , I. Cabrera-Munguia

Numerical simulations indicate that black holes carrying linear momentum and/or orbital momentum can power jets. The jets extract the kinetic energy stored in the black hole's motion. This could provide an important electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-29 Robert F. Penna

The Penrose process (PP) is an ingenious mechanism of extracting rotational energy from a rotating black hole, however it was soon realized that it was not very efficient for its astrophysical applications for powering the central engine of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-04 Naresh Dadhich

Penrose process on rotational energy extraction of the black hole in the Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime is studied. It has been shown that for the radial motion of particles NUT parameter slightly shifts the shape of the effective potential down.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-28 A. A. Abdujabbarov , B. J. Ahmedov , S. R. Shaymatov , A. S. Rakhmatov

In Horndeski gravity, we investigate how to extract energy from a rotating black hole immersed in a uniform magnetic field $B$ based on the Magnetic Penrose Process. We map the ergosphere and negative energy regions of this spacetime, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Ke Wang , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

In this paper, we consider a well-established magnetic Penrose process (MPP) and bring out its impact on the efficiency of energy extraction from higher dimensional (i.e., $D>4$) black holes. We derive the field equations of motion and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-19 Sanjar Shaymatov

The neutral particle motion around rotating regular black hole that was derived from the Ay\'{o}n-Beato-Garc\'{i}a black hole solution by the Newman-Janis algorithm in the preceding paper [Phys. Rev. D 89, 104017, (2014)] has been studied.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Bobir Toshmatov , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Zdenek Stuchlík

We explore the extraction of energy from a rotating black hole spacetime modified by a quantum correction parameter \( \alpha \). Focusing on particle splitting within the ergoregion, we analyze the Penrose process and compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Urooj Fatima , G. Abbas

In this paper, we consider the analogy of the Penrose process in Charged Vaidya spacetime. We calculate the border of the generalized ergosphere, in which the charged particles with negative energy might exist, and show that it is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 Vitalii Vertogradov
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