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We use a Monte Carlo code to calculate the geodesic orbits of test particles around Kerr black holes, generating a distribution function of both bound and unbound populations of dark matter particles. From this distribution function, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Jeremy D. Schnittman

Relativistic accretion onto compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars is one of the most efficient known mechanisms for converting gravitational potential energy into radiation. In the case of rapidly spinning black holes, up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 G. Mustafa , Faisal Javed , S. K. Maurya , A. Ditta , Orhan Donmez , Tayyab Naseer , Abdelmalek Bouzenada , Farruh Atamurotov

The standard deviation of the initial values of the nondimensional Kerr parameter $a_{*}$ of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the radiation-dominated phase of the universe is estimated to the first order of perturbation for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Tomohiro Harada , Chul-Moon Yoo , Kazunori Kohri , Yasutaka Koga , Takeru Monobe

We investigate various aspects of energy extraction via the Penrose process in the Kerr-de Sitter spacetime. We show that the increase in the value of a positive cosmological constant, $\Lambda$, always reduces the efficiency of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-02 Sourav Bhattacharya

If two particles collide inside the ergosphere, the energy in the centre of mass frame can be made unbound provided at least one of particles has a large negative angular momentum (A. A. Grib and Yu. V. Pavlov, Europhys. Lett. 101, 20004…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-03 O. B. Zaslavskii

We present an exact analytical investigation of spin precession for a test gyroscope in the magnetized Kerr spacetime--an exact electrovacuum solution to the Einstein-Maxwell equations. Our approach accommodates arbitrary magnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-31 Karthik Iyer , Chandrachur Chakraborty

We consider collisions of particles near generic axially symmetric extremal black holes. We examine possibility of indefinitely large extraction of energy (the so-called super-Penrose process) in the limit when the point of collision…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 O. B. Zaslavskii

Buchdahl star is the most compact object without an event horizon and is an excellent candidate for a black hole mimicker. Unlike black holes, rotating Buchdahl star can be over-extremal with respect to the black hole, sustaining a larger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-10 Sanjar Shaymatov , Naresh Dadhich , Arman Tursunov

We compute a series of three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows in the Kerr metric to investigate the properties of the unbound outflows that result. The overall strength of these outflows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

Combined influence of rotation of a black hole and ambient magnetic fields creates conditions for powerful astrophysical processes of accretion and outflow of matter which are observed in many systems across the range of masses; from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Ondrej Kopacek , Vladimir Karas

If a supermassive black hole has some material orbiting around it at close to its innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), then, when it plunges into a second supermassive black hole, the orbiting material has a velocity dispersion of order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-17 Renyue Cen

We prove the Penrose inequality with angular momentum for asymptotically flat, axisymmetric vacuum initial data sets containing a stable marginally outer trapped surface. This inequality provides a lower bound for the ADM mass in terms of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Da Xu

The highest efficiency of converting rest mass into energy by accreting matter into a Kerr black hole is ~ 31% (Thorne 1974). We propose a new process in which periods of accretion from a thin disk, and the associated spin-up of the black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Li-Xin Li , Bohdan Paczynski

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

This paper investigates the repetitive Penrose process in Konoplya-Zhidenko rotating non-Kerr black hole, exploring the influence of the deformation parameter on the repetitive Penrose process. After a brief review of the Konoplya-Zhidenko…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Dong-Ping Su , Ke Wang

In a collisional Penrose process, two particles coming from the asymptotically flat region collide in the ergosphere of a compact object. The collision produces two new particles, one with positive energy and one with negative energy. When…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-02 Naoki Tsukamoto , Cosimo Bambi

In this work, we investigate the ppE waveform imprints induced by the external magnetic fields of Bertotti-Robinson and Bonnor-Melvin black holes, with the aim of distinguishing such magnetic effects from environmental influences. We first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Xulong Yuan , Xiangdong Zhang

It is widely believed that some classes of high-energy transients may be powered by the rotational energy of a rapidly spinning black hole. The energy extraction mechanism commonly discussed involves macroscopic magnetic fields that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amir Levinson

In this paper, we study the Penrose process and the maximum energy extracted from the collision of two particles near the Kerr-Newman black hole with WGC condition. We consider the collision process when two particles collide in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-10 E. Naghd Mezerji , J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan

Black holes are spun up by accreting matter and possibly spun-down by magnetic fields. In our work we consider the effect on black hole rotation of the two electromagnetic processes, Blandford-Znajek and Direct Magnetic Link, that differ in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Anna Chashkina , Pavel Abolmasov