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Recent study shows that the magnetic reconnection can serve as an efficient mechanism to extract energy from rapidly spinning black holes. In this paper, we consider the effects of the tidal charge on the energy extraction via the magnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Shao-Wen Wei , Hui-Min Wang , Yu-Peng Zhang , Yu-Xiao Liu

We perform a detailed observational analysis of several galactic X-ray binaries, focusing on the interplay between black hole spin, jet power, and radiative efficiency within the context of Blandford-Znajek-powered jets. Using updated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-06 Subhadip Sau , John W. Moffat

The structural properties of geodesic currents in an ambient Kerr background is studied from an analytical point of view. The geodesics in the congruence correspond to charged particles that carry energy and angular momentum from the black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Govind Menon , Charles Dermer

In this paper, we investigate the power and efficiency of energy extraction through magnetic reconnection in the Kerr-Sen-AdS$_{4}$ black hole, with a primary focus on both the circular orbit and plunging region. We plot the allowed regions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Ke Wang

In 1977, Blandford and Znajek showed that the electromagnetic field surrounding a rotating black hole can harvest its spin energy and use it to power a collimated astrophysical jet, such as the one launched from the center of the elliptical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-16 Andrew Chael , Alexandru Lupsasca , George N. Wong , Eliot Quataert

The classical Penrose process and the collisional Penrose processes involve particles decaying or interacting very close to a spinning black hole, in which some particles acquire negative energy and fall into the black hole while others…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Shravan Vengalil Menon , Kun Hu , Henric Krawczynski

Blazars are a rare class of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with relativistic jets pointing towards the observer. Jets are thought to be launched as Poynting-flux dominated outflows that accelerate to relativistic speeds at the expense of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Maria Petropoulou , Filippos Psarras , Dimitrios Giannios

We explore the relation between black hole mass ($M_{\rm BH}$) and the motion of the jet components for a sample of blazars. The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) 2cm Survey and its continuation: Monitoring of Jets in active galactic nuclei…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ming Zhou , Xinwu Cao

We propose a new electromagnetic-emission mechanism in magnetized, force-free plasma, which is driven by the evolution of the underlying dynamic spacetime. In particular, the emission power and angular distribution of the emitted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Huan Yang , Fan Zhang

Recently the first real image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 successfully has been captured. To explain the behavior of both the observed powerful jets and the electromagnetic accretion disk the Blandford…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-25 Haidar Sheikhahmadi

The origin of jets emitted from black holes is not well understood, however there are two possible energy sources, the accretion disk or the rotating black hole. Magnetohydrodynamic simulations show a well-defined jet that extracts energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vladimir Semenov , Sergey Dyadechkin , Brian Punsly

We consider a general class of quantum gravity-inspired, modified gravity theories, where the Einstein-Hilbert action is extended through the addition of all terms quadratic in the curvature tensor coupled to scalar fields with standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-12 Kent Yagi , Leo C. Stein , Nicolas Yunes , Takahiro Tanaka

We demonstrate an extraordinary effect of energy gain by a single radiating charged particle inside the ergosphere of a Kerr black hole in presence of magnetic field. We solve numerically the covariant form of the Lorentz-Dirac equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-20 Martin Kološ , Arman Tursunov , Zdeněk Stuchlík

In this Letter, we wish to point out that the distinguishing feature of Magnetic Penrose process (MPP) is its super high efficiency exceeding $100\%$ (which was established in mid 1980s for discrete particle accretion) of extraction of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Naresh Dadhich , Arman Tursunov , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Zdeněk Stuchlík

Giant X-ray cavities lie in some active galactic nuclei (AGNs) locating in central galaxies of clusters, most of these cavities are thought to be inflated by jets of AGNs. The jets can be either powered by rotating black holes or the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Shuang-Liang Li , Xinwu Cao

Relativistic jets from a Kerr black hole (BH) following the core collapse of a massive star ("collapsar") is a leading model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, the two key ingredients for a Blandford-Znajek powered jet $-$ rapid rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Ore Gottlieb , Mathieu Renzo , Brian D. Metzger , Jared A. Goldberg , Matteo Cantiello

The semi-inclusive decay processes of a top quark into a charged pseudo-scalar meson and a jet are studied within the framework of QCD factorization. The leading power of the decay matrix elements can be factorized into heavy-to-light quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-02 Long-Shun Lu , Lei-Yi Li , Cai-Dian Lü

We examine a Chern-Simons matrix model which we propose as a toy model for studying the quantum nature of black holes in 2+1 gravity. Its dynamics is described by two $N\times N$ matrices, representing the two spatial coordinates. The model…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Chaney , Lei Lu , A. Stern

In the case involving particles the necessary and sufficient condition for the Penrose process to extract energy from a rotating black hole is absorption of particles with negative energies and angular momenta. No torque at the black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-04 J. -P. Lasota , E. Gourgoulhon , M. Abramowicz , A. Tchekhovskoy , R. Narayan

We provide a schematic framework for understanding observations of jet suppression in soft state black hole X-ray binaries based on the Blandford-Payne process and the net magnetic flux threading the black hole. Due to the geometrical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-19 David Garofalo , Chandra B. Singh