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We present the solution of a non-linear magnetic-charged black hole with an anisotropic matter field and further extend it to obtain the corresponding rotating black hole solution using the modified Newman-Janis algorithm. The event horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-28 Qi-Quan Li , Yu Zhang , Hoernisa Iminniyaz

If two particles collide inside the ergosphere, the energy in the centre of mass frame can be made unbound provided at least one of particles has a large negative angular momentum (A. A. Grib and Yu. V. Pavlov, Europhys. Lett. 101, 20004…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-03 O. B. Zaslavskii

If a black hole is immersed in a magnetosphere,its rotational energy can be transferred to the electromagnetic field and escape as a Poynting flux to infinity. This process of extraction of rotational energy is known as the Blandford-Znajek…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Milos Ertola Urtubey , Daniela Pérez

As a complementary or companion process to the Blandford-Znajek mechanism for the rotational energy extraction from a Kerr black hole to serve as a viable model for the central engine of quasar, AGN and even GRB, the magnetic alignment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hongsu Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee , Chul H. Lee

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

We define and sketch the generalized ergosphere of the Majumdar-Papapetrou (MP) spacetime. In particular, we demonstrate the existence of closed orbits of negative energy that live outside the event horizon of such a spacetime. Relying on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 Lucas Timotheo Sanches , Maurício Richartz

Recently, a class of exact solutions describing rotating black holes immersed in a uniform magnetic field has been proposed, and various properties of such black holes remain unclear. This paper aims to explore how to extract energy based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Ke Wang

Recently, it has been demonstrated by Comisso and Asenjo that magnetic reconnection processes in the ergosphere of a Kerr black hole can provide us with a promising mechanism for extracting the rotational energy from it. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-25 Zhen Li , Xiao-Kan Guo , Faqiang Yuan

In this article, we study the repetitive Penrose process for the Kerr-Taub-NUT black hole (BH). First of all, we briefly review the spacetime of the Kerr-Taub-NUT BH, including horizon and ergosphere structures. The results indicate that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-27 Mirzabek Alloqulov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Chengxun Yuan

The method of Hawking to obtain black hole evaporation through Bogoljubov transformation between asymptotic modes (in and out) is generalized. The construction is local in that the in modes (of say positive frequency) are decomposed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 S. Massar , R. Parentani , R. Brout

Magnetic reconnection within a highly magnetized plasma has been seen as a viable mechanism to extract the energy from a rotating black hole, as it can generate negative energy plasmoids in the ergoregion. For a typical accreting black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-08 Bin Chen , Yehui Hou , Junyi Li , Ye Shen

In association with the Blanford-Znajek mechanism for rotational energy extraction from Kerr black holes, it is of some interest to explore how much of magnetic flux can actually penetrate the horizon at least in idealized situations. For…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Hongsu Kim , Chul Hoon Lee , Hyun Kyu Lee

The launching of astrophysical jets provides the most compelling observational evidence for direct extraction of black hole (BH) spin energy via the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism. Whilst it is known that spinning Kerr BHs within general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-08 Koushik Chatterjee , Ziri Younsi , Prashant Kocherlakota , Ramesh Narayan

We investigate the properties of the horizons and ergosphere in a rotating higher dimensional (HD) deformed Kerr-like black hole. We also explicitly bring out the effect of deformation parameter $\epsilon$ and the extra dimension on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-17 Sushant G. Ghosh , Pankaj Sheoran

In general, energy extraction methods such as the Penrose process and the magnetic Penrose process are thought to be reliant on the existence of an ergoregion. Inside an ergoregion, there are negative energy states that allow a particle to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Vishva Patel , Kauntey Acharya , Parth Bambhaniya , Pankaj S. Joshi

When magnetic field lines thread a rotating black hole's horizon and connect with remote astrophysical loads, the rotational energy of the black hole can be extracted through the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. Due to the rotation of the black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Li-Xin Li

States of particles with negative energies are considered for the nonrelativistic and relativistic cases. In nonrelativistic case it is shown that the decays close to the attracting center can lead to the situation similar to the Penrose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-08 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

A four-dimensional asymptotic expansion scheme is used to study the next order effects of the nonlinearity near a spinning dynamical black hole. The angular momentum flux and energy flux formula are then obtained by constructing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-05 Yu-Huei Wu , Chih-Hung Wang

We first study the escape probability of the spinning particle emitted from the Kerr black hole and find that the escape probability increases with the spin of the particle around the extreme Kerr black hole; in contrast, the escape…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 Ming Zhang , Jie Jiang

Recently, Ruffini et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 134 (2025) 8, 081403] pointed out that the repetitive Penrose process cannot drain the entire extractable energy of a Kerr black hole. In this Letter, we alternatively point out the charge of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-06 Li Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Shao-Jiang Wang