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It was demonstrated by Comisso and Asenjo that the magnetic reconnection in the ergosphere is a promising mechanism to extract energy from the rotating Kerr black hole. In this work, we investigate the role of Comisso-Asenjo mechanism in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Zhen Li , Faqiang Yuan

A toy model for magnetic extraction of energy from black hole (BH) accretion disk is discussed by considering the restriction of the screw instability to the magnetic field configuration. Three mechanisms of extracting energy magnetically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ding-Xiong Wang , Yong-Chun Ye , Ren-Yi Ma

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

The possibility of extracting energy from a rotating black hole via the Blandford-Znajek mechanism represents a cornerstone of relativistic astrophysics. We present general-relativistic collisionless kinetic simulations of Kerr black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-19 Claudio Meringolo , Filippo Camilloni , Luciano Rezzolla

We perform the first numerical simulations modeling the inflow and outflow of magnetized plasma in the Kerr-Sen spacetime, which describes classical spinning black holes (BHs) in string theory. We find that the Blandford-Znajek (BZ)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Koushik Chatterjee , Prashant Kocherlakota , Ziri Younsi , Ramesh Narayan

Recently, Comisso and Asenjo proposed a novel mechanism for harnessing energy from black holes through magnetic reconnection. Our study focuses on exploring the utilization of this mechanism on Konoplya-Rezzolla-Zhidenko (KRZ) parametrized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-30 Shao-Jun Zhang

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

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 work, we provide a thorough analysis of energy extraction via magnetic reconnection, a novel mechanism recently proposed by Comisso and Asenjo, for a Kerr-Newman black hole immersed in a perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM) background.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-11 Shanshan Rodriguez , Alex Sidler , Leo Rodriguez , L. R. Ram-Mohan

We consider the Blandford-Znajek process of electromagnetic extraction of energy from a general axially symmetric asymptotically flat slowly rotating black hole. Using the general parametrization of the black-hole spacetime we construct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-03 R. A. Konoplya , J. Kunz , A. Zhidenko

Relying on the Penrose process mechanism, we study the possibility of energy extraction from a binary system composed of two extreme electrostatic black holes (BHs) oppositely charged, separated by a strut described by Bonnor's metric (BM).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-02 A. Baez , N. Breton , I. Cabrera-Munguia

Supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei launch relativistic jets, as indicated by observed superluminal radio blobs. The energy source of these jets is widely discussed in the theoretical framework of Blandford-Znajek process,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kenji Toma , Hirofumi Noda , Kazuhiro Hada

In this study, we explore the influence of quantum gravitational corrections, derived from Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG), on the efficiency of the magnetic Penrose process (MPP) in black hole (BH) environments. We begin by analyzing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-02 Tursunali Xamidov , Pankaj Sheoran , Sanjar Shaymatov , Tao Zhu

It has been thought for decades that rotating black holes (BHs) power the energetic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), but the mechanism that extracts the BH energy has remained elusive. We here show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

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 quantitatively study the stationary, axisymmetric, force-free magnetospheres of spinning (Kerr) black holes (BHs) and the conditions needed for relativistic jets to be powered by the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. These jets could be from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-03 Alexander L. Ford , Brett D. Keenan , Mikhail V. Medvedev

In this paper we report the results of axisymmetric relativistic MHD simulations for the problem of Kerr black hole immersed into a rarefied plasma with ''uniform'' magnetic field. The long term solution shows properties which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. S. Komissarov

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

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

Magnetic reconnection has been extensively shown to be a promising approach to extract spinning black hole energy. In this paper, we focus on extracting spinning wormhole energy via such mechanism. The study shows that it is indeed possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 Xu Ye , Chao-Hui Wang , Shao-Wen Wei