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If a black hole is immersed in a magnetosphere,its rotational energy can be transferred to the electromagnetic field and escape as a Poynting flux to infinity. This process of extraction of rotational energy is known as the Blandford-Znajek…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Milos Ertola Urtubey , Daniela Pérez

We report on the third phase of our study of the neutrino-cooled hyperaccreting torus around a black hole that powers the jet in Gamma Ray Bursts. We focus on the influence of the black hole spin on the properties of the torus. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Agnieszka Janiuk , Ye-Fei Yuan , ;

The non-existence of asymptotically flat, neutral black holes and asymptotically flat, charged black holes in the Maxwell electrodynamics, with non-trivial scalar field has been proved for a large class of scalar-tensor theories. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Zh. Stefanov , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev , Michail D. Todorov

The present work presents analytically constructed equilibrium structures of charged perfect fluids orbiting Kerr Black holes embedded in an asymptotically uniform magnetic field. Our focus is on the effect of the non-constant angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Audrey Trova

The tools of Kerr/CFT correspondence are applied to the Kerr black hole embedded in an axial external magnetic field. Its extremal near horizon geometry remains a warped and twisted product of $AdS_2\times S^2$. The central charge of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-21 Marco Astorino

Magnetic layers are narrow regions where the field direction changes sharply. They often occur in the association with neutral points of the magnetic field. We show that an organised field can produce these structures near a rotating black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-22 V. Karas , O. Kopacek

We investigate general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations (GRMHD) to determine the physical origin of the twisty patterns of linear polarization seen in spatially resolved black hole images and explain their morphological…

This is the second lecture of `RAGtime' series on electrodynamical effects near black holes. We will summarize the basic equations of relativistic electrodynamics in terms of spin-coefficient (Newman-Penrose) formalism. The aim of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-14 Vladimir Karas

Comparable-mass black-hole mergers generically result in moderate to highly spinning holes, whose spacetime curvature will significantly affect nearby matter in observable ways. We investigate how the moderate spin of a post-merger Kerr…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Bernard J. Kelly , Zachariah B. Etienne , Jacob Golomb , Jeremy D. Schnittman , John G. Baker , Scott C. Noble , Geoffrey Ryan

We investigate the motions of charged particles in the near horizon region of an extreme Kerr black hole with weak electromagnetic fields. There is an enhanced symmetry in the NHEK geometry. We find that when the electromagnetic field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-13 Yehui Hou , Zhenyu Zhang , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

If a Kerr black hole is connected to a disk rotating around it by a magnetic field, the rotational energy of the Kerr black hole provides an energy source for the radiation of the disk in addition to disk accretion. The black hole exerts a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Li-Xin Li

We study magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) standing shocks in inflowing plasmas in a black hole magnetosphere. Fast and intermediate shock formation is explored in Schwarzschild and Kerr geometry to illustrate general relativistic effects. We find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Keigo Fukumura , Masaaki Takahashi , Sachiko Tsuruta

A magnetic field dynamo in the inner regions of the accretion disk surrounding the supermassive black holes in AGNs may be the mechanism for the generation of magnetic fields in galaxies and in extragalactic space. We argue that the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 Vladimir I. Pariev , Stirling A. Colgate

Transition of gravitational waves, produced in the process of coalescence of black hole binaries, into electromagnetic radiation in magnetic field is discussed. The magnetic field is assumed to be created by rotating electrically charged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-25 A. D. Dolgov

There is a general consensus that magnetic fields, accretion disks, and rotating black holes are instrumental in the generation of the most powerful sources of energy in the known universe. Nonetheless, because magnetized accretion onto…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 David Garofalo

As demonstrated by Chernodub, strong magnetic field forces vacuum to develop real condensates of electrically charged rho mesons, which form an anisotropic inhomogeneous superconducting state similar to Abrikosov vortex lattice. As far as…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-18 Igor I. Smolyaninov

This Letter investigates the physics that is responsible for creating the current system that supports the outgoing Poynting flux emanating from the ergosphere of a rotating black hole in the limit that the magnetic energy density greatly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian Punsly

The origin of magnetic fields in the universe still remains unknown and constitutes one of the most intriguing questions in astronomy and astrophysics. Their significance is enormous since they have a strong influence on many astrophysical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Anamaría Navarro-Noguera , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , Guillermo A. González

We consider the magnetoelectric effect produced by a capacitor formed by two semispherical perfectly conducting plates subjected to a potential difference and surrounded by a spherical shell of a topologically insulating material. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-21 Daniel G. Velázquez , L. F. Urrutia

We calculate the self-force acting on a charged particle on a circular geodesic orbit in the equatorial plane of a rotating black hole. We show by direct calculation that the dissipative self-force balances with the sum of the flux radiated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-19 T. Torres , S. R. Dolan