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We consider collisional Penrose process for charged, rotating black holes together with a simple model of pair creation, in which two oppositely charged particles are produced in a collision of two neutral particles. We highlight that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Filip Hejda

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

In the present paper, we explore various gravitational aspects such as energy extraction (via the Penrose process and Superradiance), particle collisions around a $\mathcal{N}=2$, $U(1)^2$ dyonic rotating black hole (BH) in the gauged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Anik Rudra , Hemwati Nandan , Radouane Gannouji , Soham Chakraborty , Arindam Kumar Chatterjee

Spinning black holes create electromagnetic storms when immersed in ambient magnetic fields, illuminating the otherwise epically dark terrain. In an electromagnetic extension of the Penrose process, tremendous energy can be extracted,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Kshitij Gupta , Y. T. Albert Law , Janna Levin

The energy extraction from a magnetized Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole is analyzed within the framework of the electric Penrose mechanism. The presence of an external magnetic field induces an axisymmetric configuration and an ergosphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 A. Baez , Nora Breton , I. Cabrera-Munguia

The collisional Penrose process received much attention when Banados, Silk and West (BSW) pointed out the possibility of test-particle collisions with arbitrarily high center-of-mass energy in the vicinity of the horizon of an extremally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Filip Hejda , José P. S. Lemos , Oleg B. Zaslavskii

We analyze the extraction of the rotational energy of a Kerr black hole (BH) endowed with a test charge and surrounded by an external test magnetic field and ionized low-density matter. For a magnetic field parallel to the BH spin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

The mass-energy formula for a black hole endowed with electromagnetic structure (EMBH) is clarified for the nonrotating case. The irreducible mass $M_{\mathrm{irr}}$ is found to be independent of the electromagnetic field and explicitly…

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

The Penrose process, a process that transfers energy from a black hole to infinity, together with the BSW mechanism, which uses collisions of ingoing particles at the event horizon of a black hole to locally produce large amounts of energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Duarte Feiteira , José P. S. Lemos , Oleg B. Zaslavskii

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

We investigate mechanisms of energy extraction from a rotating black hole in terms of negative energy-at-infinity. In addition to the Penrose process through particle fission, the Blandford-Znajek mechanism by magnetic tension, and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shinji Koide , Kenzo Arai

Energy extraction from a rotating or charged black hole is one of fascinating issues in general relativity. The collisional Penrose process is one of such extraction mechanisms and has been reconsidered intensively since Banados, Silk and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-15 Ken-ichi Nakao , Hirotada Okawa , Kei-ichi Maeda

In this paper, we study the electric Penrose energy extraction for charged particles in the spacetime of a covariant quantum-corrected Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. We first derive the equations of motion and effective potential for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Jiawei Chen , Jinsong Yang

We investigate the extraction of rotational energy from rotating Einstein-Born-Infeld (EBI) black holes, where nonlinear electrodynamics introduces a radius-dependent effective charge modifying the spacetime geometry. Focusing on neutral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Urooj Fatima , G. Abbas

The energy extraction from a Einstein-Born-Infeld (EBI) black hole is addressed determining the extension of the ergosphere as well as the extractable energy using the irreducible mass concept. These results are compared with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-28 Nora Breton

We analyze the energy extraction by the Penrose process in higher dimensions. Our result shows the efficiency of the process from higher dimensional black holes and black rings can be rather high compared with than that in four dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Masato Nozawa , Kei-ichi Maeda

The Penrose process in the vicinity of an extremal Ban\~ados-Teitelboim-Zanelli(BTZ) black hole is studied. Due to the existence of negative cosmological constant, only massless particles could escape to infinity. Hence we analyse the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Xianglong Wu , Xiangdong Zhang

The energy extraction from an electrostatic black hole by the decay or splitting of electrically charged particles is analyzed. We determine the energetic conditions that make the extraction process viable and present a general expression…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 A. Baez , Nora Breton , I. Cabrera-Munguia

We investigate the geometry, dynamics, and collision mechanisms in the ergoregion of KerrNewman-AdS black hole influenced by quintessential energy. Particle splittings within the ergoregion are analyzed, demonstrating their role in energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-21 K. Q. Abbasi , F. L. Carneiro , M. Z. A. Moughal

Extracting the rotational energy from a Kerr black hole (BH) is one of the crucial topics in relativistic astrophysics. Here, we give special attention to the Penrose ballistic process based on the fission of a massive particle $\mu_0$ into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-11 Remo Ruffini , Mikalai Prakapenia , Hernando Quevedo , Shurui Zhang
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