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By performing two-dimensional axisymmetric general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations with spin parameter $a^*$ varying from -0.9 to 0.9, we investigate the dependence on the black hole spin of the energy flow from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Aoto Utsumi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Yuta Asahina

We address the properties of extremal black holes by considering the Christodoulou-Ruffini/Hawking mass-energy formula. By simple geometrical arguments, we found that the mass/energy formula is satisfied by two meaningful extremal black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-15 Giorgio Sonnino

The presence of a strong, large-scale magnetic field in an accretion flow leads to extraction of the rotational energy of the black hole (BH) through the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process, believed to power relativistic jets in various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

We have studied the energy extraction from a Kerr-Taub-NUT black hole via magnetic reconnection occurring in the plunging region. Our results show that the gravitomagnetic charge suppresses the energy extraction process through magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-14 Zhengwei Cheng , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Theoretical and numerical (Monte Carlo) N-particle computer model simulations show that Penrose Compton scattering (PCS) near the event horizon and Penrose pair production (PPP) at or near the photon orbit, in the ergosphere of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Reva Kay Williams

While theoretically established for decades, the Penrose process - energy extraction from rotating black holes - still lacks clear observational evidence. A promising theoretical framework posits magnetic reconnection in the ergosphere as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-03 Zhixing Zhao , Zhong-Ying Fan , Xiaobao Wang , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

Using the Kerr-Schild formalism to solve the Einstein-Maxwell equations, we study energy transport due to time-dependent electromagnetic perturbations around a Kerr black hole, which may work as a mechanism to illuminate a disk located on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-14 Taichi Kobayashi , Kohei Onda , Akira Tomimatsu

We find a class of asymptotically flat slowly rotating charged black hole solutions of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with arbitrary dilaton coupling constant in higher dimensions. Our solution is the correct one generalizing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Sheykhi , M. Allahverdizadeh , Y. Bahrampour , M. Rahnama

The Blandford-Znajek process, one of the most promising model for powering the relativistic jets from black holes, was initially introduced as a mechanism in which the magnetic fields extract energy from a rotating black hole. We study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-12 Milton Ruiz , Carlos Palenzuela , Filippo Galeazzi , Carles Bona

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

We calculate the evolution of the prompt intrinsic Poynting power generated by merging black holes. Orbiting black holes induce rotation of the space-time. In a presence of magnetic field supported by an accretion disk outside of the orbit,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-22 Maxim Lyutikov

We show that the pseudotensors of Einstein, Tolman, Landau and Lifshitz, Papapetrou, and Weinberg (ETLLPW) give the same distributions of energy, linear momentum and angular momentum, for any Kerr-Schild metric. This result generalizes a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-03 J M Aguirregabiria , A Chamorro , K S Virbhadra

In this work, we investigate the electromagnetic energy released by astrophysical black holes within the Kerr-Taub-NUT solution, which describes rotating black holes with a nonvanishing gravitomagnetic charge. In our study, we consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-13 Bakhtiyor Narzilloev , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Cosimo Bambi

We study the metric backreaction of mass and angular momentum accretion on black holes. We first develop the formalism of monopole and dipole linear gravitational perturbations around the Schwarzschild black holes in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-20 Masashi Kimura , Tomohiro Harada , Atsushi Naruko , Kenji Toma

The mass--energy formula of black holes implies that up to 50% of the energy can be extracted from a static black hole. Such a result is reexamined using the recently established analytic formulas for the collapse of a shell and expression…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Remo Ruffini , Luca Vitagliano

In this paper we construct four Kerr-like spacetimes starting from the loop black hole Schwarzschild solutions (LBH) and applying the Newman-Janis transformation. In previous papers the Schwarzschild LBH was obtained replacing the Ashtekar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-06 Francesco Caravelli , Leonardo Modesto

One of the leading mechanisms powering relativistic black hole jets is the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process. Inspired by its success we construct energy extracting models for black holes in five space-time dimensions. Here, we find solutions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-09 Alexandra Chanson , Maria J. Rodriguez

In the Penrose process and the Blandford-Znajek mechanism, the rotational energy of a black hole (BH) is extracted via particle fission and magnetic tension, respectively. Recently, inspired by a fundamental trait in plasma astrophysics…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-25 Mohsen Khodadi

We have studied the null geodesics in the background of the Kerr-Newman black hole veiled by a plasma medium using the Hamilton-Jacobi method. The in uence of black hole's charge and plasma parameters on the effective potential and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-10 Gulmina Zaman Babar , Abdullah Zaman Babar , Farruh Atamurotov

Expressions for the general and complete perturbations in terms of Debye potentials of static charged black holes in string theory, valid for curvature below the Planck scale, are derived starting from a decoupled set of equations and using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 R. Cartas-Fuentevilla