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Scattering of particles in the gravitational field of rotating black holes is considered. Expressions for scattering energy of particles in the centre of mass system are obtained. It is shown that scattering energy of particles in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-05 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov

It has recently been pointed out that particles falling freely from rest at infinity outside a Kerr black hole can in principle collide with arbitrarily high center of mass energy in the limiting case of maximal black hole spin. Here we aim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Ted Jacobson , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Magnetic reconection provides a new avenue to extract energy from a rotating black hole in astrophysical scenarios. There have been many works studying the feasibility of extracting energy via magnetic reconnection in the scheme of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-08 Ye Shen , Ho-Yun YuChih , Bin Chen

It is discussed how Penrose process can be used in a strange star, described by the Hartle-Thorne metric, to extract its rotational energy. This metric has an ergosphere region that depends only on its angular momentum. It is shown that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-04 Alpha O. Djalo , Felipe A. Asenjo

We consider the Penrose process near the naked singularity in the Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m metric. Particle 0 falls from infinity and decays to two fragments at some point $r_{0}$. We show that the energy extraction due to this process can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-13 O. B. Zaslavskii

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

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 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

If two particles moving towards a black hole collide near the horizon, their energy in the centre of mass frame can grow unbounded. This is the so-called Banados - Silk - West (BSW) effect. Earlier, it was shown that in the 3+1 space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-01 O. B. Zaslavskii

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

We investigate the electric Penrose process in Ay\'{o}n-Beato-Garc\'{i}a (ABG) black holes, both in the presence and absence of a cosmological constant, presenting the first such analysis within the context of regular black holes. Our study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Haowei Chen , Hengyu Xu , Yizhi Zhan , Shao-Jun Zhang

Let a particle move in the flat space-time under the action of the electric potential. If it decays to two fragments, the energy of debris can be larger than the original energy and, moreover, the efficiency of such a process can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 O. B. Zaslavskii

To explain the extremely high energy release, $>10^{53}$~erg, suggested by the observations of some Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) we propose a new energy extraction mechanism from the rotation energy of a Kerr-Newman black hole (BH) by a massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 Fabrizio Tamburini , Mariafelicia De Laurentis , Lorenzo Amati , Bo Thidé

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

Many efforts were made in order to better understand the energy extraction via magnetic reconnection from a rotating black hole, following the work of Comisso and Asenjo in 2021. We also tried to make some progress in our previous works, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Ho-Yun YuChih , Ye Shen

In this lecture I give an introduction to the rotational energy extraction of black holes by the electromagnetic Blandford-Znajek process and the generation of relativistic jets. After some basic material on the electrodynamics of black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Norbert Straumann

We use fully nonlinear numerical relativity techniques to study high energy head-on collision of nonspinning, equal-mass black holes to estimate the maximum gravitational radiation emitted by these systems. Our simulations include…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 James Healy , Ian Ruchlin , Carlos O. Lousto , Yosef Zlochower

The Banados-Silk-West effect consists in the possibility to get infinite energy in the centre of mass frame of two particles colliding near the black hole horizon. According to S. T. McWilliams, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 (2013) 011102, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-20 O. B. Zaslavskii

We investigate the energy distribution of a black hole in various spacetimes as reckoned by a distant observer using the quasi-local energy approach. In each case the horizon mass of a black hole: neutral, charged or rotating, is found to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Yuan K. Ha

The Standard Model of particle physics predicts the speed of light to be a universal speed of propagation of massless carriers. However, other possibilities exist -- including Lorentz-violating theories -- where different fundamental fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-25 Vitor Cardoso , Shinji Mukohyama , Naritaka Oshita , Kazufumi Takahashi