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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

In this work, we study circular motions of charged particles and their polarized images around the Kerr black hole immersed in a weak magnetic field. We pay special attention to the case that both the magnetic field and the charge-to-mass…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Tsai-Chen Lee , Zezhou Hu , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

The approximate renormalized stress-energy tensor of the quantized massive conformally coupled scalar field in the spacetime of electrically charged nonlinear black hole is constructed. It is achieved by functional differentiation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jerzy Matyjasek

We propose a disc-corona model in which a geometrically thin, optically thick disc surrounds a Kerr black hole, and magnetic fields exert a time-steady torque on the inner edge of the accretion disc. The analytical expression of the total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Xiaolong Gong , Lixin Li , Renyi Ma

We present a detailed analysis of the magnetic field structure found in general relativistic 3D MHD simulations of accreting tori in the Kerr metric with different black hole spins. Among the properties analyzed are the field strength as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shigenobu Hirose , Julian H. Krolik , Jean-Pierre De Villiers , John F. Hawley

Trajectories of charged particle in combined poloidal, toroidal magnetic field and rotation-induced unipolar electric field superposed in Schwarzschild background geometry have been investigated extensively in the context of accreting black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Sujan Sengupta

Some active galactic nuclei, microquasars, and gamma ray bursts may be powered by the electromagnetic braking of a rapidly rotating black hole. We investigate this possibility via axisymmetric numerical simulations of a black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan C. McKinney , Charles F. Gammie

A recent research presented a solution for a Schwarzschild black hole with a force-free magnetic field showing how the canonical form of background metric changes, Found. Phys. 52 (2022) 4, 93. Therefore, it is logical that this research…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-01 Haidar Sheikhahmadi

We study the effects of large scale magnetic fields on the dynamics of charged particles near a rotating black hole. We consider a scenario in which the initially neutral particles on geodesic orbits in the equatorial plane become ionized,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-23 Vladimir Karas , Ondrej Kopacek

This article reports on three-dimensional (3-D) MHD simulations of non-rotating and rapidly rotating black holes and the adjacent black hole accretion disk magnetospheres. A particular emphasis is placed on the vertical magnetic flux that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Brian Punsly , Igor V. Igumenshchev , Shigenobu Hirose

Using the Kerr-Schild formalism to solve the Einstein-Maxwell equations, we study energy transport due to time-dependent electromagnetic perturbations around a Kerr black hole, which may work as a mechanism to illuminate a disk located on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-14 Taichi Kobayashi , Kohei Onda , Akira Tomimatsu

The expulsion of axisymmetric magnetic field from the event horizons of rapidly rotating black holes has been seen as an astrophysically important effect that may significantly reduce or even nullify the efficiency of the Blandford-Znajek…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. S. Komissarov , J. C. McKinney

We investigate the generation of magnetic fields above black hole accretion discs due to the non-zero curl of the disc radiation field. By self consistently computing the components of the radiation flux and their curl, we show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-16 Mukesh Kumar Vyas , Asaf Pe'er

The no-hair theorem of general relativity states that isolated black holes are characterized by three parameters: mass, spin, and charge. In this Letter we consider Kerr black holes endowed with highly magnetized plasma-filled…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Ashley Bransgrove , Bart Ripperda , Alexander Philippov

The electromagnetic field near a rotating black hole is being explored in educational style here. By employing analytic solutions for electrovacuum fields, we plot the surfaces of constant flux and we show how the field is dragged around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Budinova , M. Dovciak , V. Karas , A. Lanza

We present a novel systematic framework for engineering energy-momentum tensors in linearized gravity that generate gravitational fields with a prescribed multipolar structure, aimed at modeling black hole mimickers. As a concrete example,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-24 Claudio Gambino

Already in the cornerstone works on astrophysical black holes published as early as in 1970s, Ruffini and collaborators have revealed potential importance of an intricate interaction between the effects of strong gravitational and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-14 Vladimir Karas , Zdenek Stuchlik

We obtain a family of exact solutions describing magnetized black holes in an external gravitational field. Locally the solutions can be interpreted as representing the near-horizon region of a black hole, which interacts with a surrounding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-19 Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova , Stoytcho Yazadjiev

The idea that black hole spin is instrumental in the generation of powerful jets in active galactic nuclei and X-ray binaries is arguably the most contentious claim in black hole astrophysics. Because jets are thought to originate in the…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-12 David Garofalo

We consider force-free magnetospheres around the extreme Kerr black hole. In this case there is no known exact analytic solution to force free electrodynamics which is stationary, axisymmetric and magnetically-dominated. However, any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-02 F. Camilloni , G. Grignani , T. Harmark , R. Oliveri , M. Orselli