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We study energy extraction and particle acceleration in the rotating Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion (EMDA) black hole, focusing on the impact of dilaton hair $b\le 0$ on near-horizon energetics relative to Kerr. For the Penrose process we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-20 Arindam Kumar Chatterjee

Penrose process on rotational energy extraction of the black hole in the Kerr-Taub-NUT spacetime is studied. It has been shown that for the radial motion of particles NUT parameter slightly shifts the shape of the effective potential down.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-28 A. A. Abdujabbarov , B. J. Ahmedov , S. R. Shaymatov , A. S. Rakhmatov

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

Recently, references [1,2] found that the repetitive Penrose process cannot extract all the extractable rotational energy of a Kerr black hole, and reference [3] found that the repetitive electric Penrose process cannot extract all the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Ke Wang , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

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

The Rezzolla-Zhidenko (RZ) framework provides an efficient approach to characterize spherically symmetric black-hole spacetimes in arbitrary metric theories of gravity using a small number of variables [L. Rezzolla and A. Zhidenko, Phys.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Prashant Kocherlakota , Luciano Rezzolla

Magnetic reconnection is a process that plays a critical role in plasma astrophysics by converting magnetic energy into plasma particle energy. Recently, Comisso and Asenjo demonstrated that rapid magnetic reconnection within a black hole's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-11 Mohsen Khodadi , David F. Mota , Ahmad Sheykhi

The presence of a strong, large-scale magnetic field in an accretion flow leads to extraction of the rotational energy of the black hole (BH) through the Blandford-Znajek (BZ) process, believed to power relativistic jets in various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Prasun Dhang , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

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

We investigate the steady, axisymmetric, force-free magnetosphere of Kerr-Sen black hole (BH) within the framework of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton-axion (EMDA) theory. By perturbatively solving the nonlinear Grad-Shafranov (GS) equation, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Haiyuan Feng , Ziqiang Cai , Rong-Jia Yang , Jinjun Zhang

Soon after the discovery of the Kerr metric, Penrose realized that superradiance can be exploited to extract energy from black holes. The original idea (involving the breakup of a single particle) yields only modest energy gains. A variant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-01 Emanuele Berti , Richard Brito , Vitor Cardoso

We investigate the shadow of Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black holes (KBRBHs), which have a deviation parameter $B$ that captures the effect of an external magnetic field on the spacetime geometry. These spacetimes of Petrov type $D$ are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-28 Heena Ali , Sushant G. Ghosh

Adopting the manifest of low-frequency and low mass for the scalar perturbation, we perform a semi-classical analysis of the superradiance phenomenon for a rotating hairy Horndeski black hole (BH). For the spacetime under study enriched by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-01 Sohan Kumar Jha , Mohsen Khodadi , Anisur Rahaman , Ahmad Sheykhi

We investigate the electric Penrose process in Ay\'{o}n-Beato-Garc\'{i}a (ABG) black holes, both in the presence and absence of a cosmological constant, presenting the first such analysis within the context of regular black holes. Our study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Haowei Chen , Hengyu Xu , Yizhi Zhan , Shao-Jun Zhang

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

This paper explores the circular geodesics of neutral test particles on an equatorial plane around a rotating black hole. After using equations of motion of scalar-tensor-vector gravity with the circular geodesics of null-like particles, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-08 M. Shahzadi , Z. Yousaf , Saeed Ullah Khan

We study the Hawking temperature, geodesic motion, and observable signatures of the accelerating Bertotti-Robinson (BR) spacetime, a vacuum black-hole solution deformed by a uniform magnetic field $B$ and an acceleration parameter $\alpha$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-05 Ahmad Al-Badawi , Faizuddin Ahmed , Edilberto O. Silva

The particle dynamics and the electric Penrose process for the five-dimensional weakly charged Schwarzschild black hole are studied. Firstly, the horizon structure and the effective potential for the test particle are explored. The radial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 Tursunali Xamidov , Mirzabek Alloqulov , Sanjar Shaymatov

We study the motion of test particles around Kerr--Bertotti--Robinson (KBR) black hole (BH) and explore how the three defining parameters the mass $M$, rotation parameter $a$, and magnetic parameter $B$ influence their dynamics. We derive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 G. Mustafa , Orhan Donmez , Dhruba Jyoti Gogoi , Sushant G. Ghosh , Ibrar Hussain , Chengxun Yuan

In this article, we explore the geodesics motion of neutral test particles and the process of energy extraction from a regular rotating Hayward black hole. We analyse the effect of spin, as well as deviation parameter $g$, on ergoregion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-20 Saeed Ullah Khan , Jingli Ren , Javlon Rayimbaev