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In this paper, the Penrose process is being used to extract rotational energy from regular black holes. Initially, we consider the rotating Simpson-Visser regular spacetime which describes the class of geometries of the Kerr black hole's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-02 Vishva Patel , Kauntey Acharya , Parth Bambhaniya , Pankaj S. Joshi

We investigate the collisional Penrose process of extended test particles near extremal Kerr black holes using the pole-dipole-quadrupole approximation. We analyze the motion of the test particles and examine the dynamics and maximum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-31 Aofei Sang , Jie Jiang , Ming Zhang

For most of their lifetime, super-massive black holes (SMBHs) commonly found in galactic nuclei obtain mass from the ambient at a rate well below the Eddington limit, which is mediated by a radiatively inefficient, hot accretion flow. Both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Fangzheng Shi , Zhiyuan Li , Feng Yuan , Bocheng Zhu

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

Scattering of particles in the gravitational field of rotating black holes is considered. It is shown that scattering energy of particles in the centre of mass system can obtain very large values not only for extremal black holes but also…

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

Supermassive black holes are believed to be the central power house of active galactic nuclei. Applying the pulsar outer-magnetospheric particle accelerator theory to black-hole magnetospheres, we demonstrate that an electric field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Kouichi Hirotani , Hung-Yi Pu

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

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 investigate the power of a collisional Penrose process with an unbound energy extraction from an extreme Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole. This process takes infinite time in a time coordinate at a constant radial coordinate outside of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-31 Naoki Tsukamoto

The processes of neutrino production of electron-positron pairs, $\nu \bar\nu \to e^- e^+$ and $\nu \to \nu e^- e^+$, in a magnetic field of arbitrary strength, where electrons and positrons can be created in the states corresponding to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 A. V. Kuznetsov , D. A. Rumyantsev , V. N. Savin

The exact mechanism by which astrophysical jets are formed is still unknown. It is believed that necessary elements are a rotating (Kerr) black hole and a magnetised accreting plasma. We model the accreting plasma as a collection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-10 V. S. Semenov , S. A. Dyadechkin , M. F. Heyn

Sagittarius A* is a compact radio source at the Galactic center, powered by accretion of fully ionized plasmas into a supermassive black hole. However, the radio emission cannot be produced through the thermal synchrotron process by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-04-02 Kyle W. Martin , Siming Liu , Chris Fragile , Cong Yu , Chris L. Fryer

We consider the stochastic acceleration of particles which results from resonant interactions with plasma waves in black hole magnetospheres. We calculate acceleration rates and escape time scales for protons and electrons resonating with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Charles D. Dermer , James A. Miller , Hui Li

Both diffuse high energy gamma-rays and an extended electron-positron annihilation line emission have been observed in the Galactic Center (GC) region. Although X-ray observations indicate that the galactic black hole Sgr A$^*$ is inactive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. S. Cheng , D. O. Chernyshov , V. A. Dogiel

Powerful winds with wide opening angles, likely driven by accretion disks around black holes (BHs), are observed in the majority of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and can play a crucial role in AGN and galaxy evolution. If protons are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-02 Susumu Inoue , Matteo Cerruti , Kohta Murase , Ruo-Yu Liu

In this paper, we investigate the acceleration in relativistic jets of high-energy proton preaccelerated in the magnetosphere of a supermassive black hole. The proton reaches maximum energy when passing the total potential difference of $U$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-14 Ya. N. Istomin , A. A. Gunya

The center of mass (CM) energy in a collisional Penrose process - a collision taking place within the ergosphere of a Kerr black hole - can diverge under suitable extreme conditions (maximal Kerr, near horizon collision and suitable impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-02 Elly Leiderschneider , Tsvi Piran

The high-energy particle production in the accretion flow onto black holes can be a key physics to explain the high-energy neutrino background. While the single-zone approximation has been commonly adopted in studies of the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Tomohisa Kawashima , Katsuaki Asano

We investigate the energy extraction by the Penrose process in Kerr-MOG black hole~(BH). We derive the gain in energy for Kerr-MOG as \begin{eqnarray} \Delta {\cal E} \leq…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-20 Parthapratim Pradhan

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
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