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We consider an extended version of the Kerr theorem incorporated in the Kerr-Schild formalism. It allows one to construct the series of exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell field equations from a holomorphic generating function $F$ of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Burinskii

On the lines of the 4-dimensional Kerr black hole we consider the particle acceleration near a 5-dimensional Kerr black hole which has the two rotation parameters. It turns out that the center of mass energy of the two equal mass colliding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-12 Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Naresh Dadhich , Bobomurat Ahmedov , Husan Eshkuvatov

We show that collisions between particles free falling from infinity and a disk of material plunging off the retrograde innermost stable circular orbit of a near-extremal Kerr black hole is the unique astronomically natural way in which to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-03 Andrew Mummery , Joseph Silk

Kerr black holes are among the most intriguing predictions of Einstein's general relativity theory. These rotating massive astrophysical objects drag and intermix their surrounding space and time, deflecting and phase-modifying light…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-18 Fabrizio Tamburini , Bo Thidé , Gabriel Molina-Terriza , Gabriele Anzolin

A twistorial formulation of a particle of arbitrary spin has been constructed. Equations of the twistor formulation are obtained for massive and massless spinning particles. The twistor space of the massive particle is formed by two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Fedoruk , V. G. Zima

Heavy particle effective theory applied to spinning black holes provides a natural framework in which propagators linearize and numerators exponentiate. In this work, we exploit these two features to introduce Kerr generating functions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-16 Rafael Aoude , Andreas Helset

Quantum higher-spin theory applied to Compton amplitudes has proven to be surprisingly useful for elucidating Kerr black hole dynamics. Here we apply the framework to compute scattering amplitudes and observables for a binary system of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Lara Bohnenblust , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini

We develop a quadratic-in-Riemann worldline action for a Kerr black hole at infinite spin orders by matching to a proposed tree-level Kerr Compton amplitude, originally obtained from higher-spin QFT considerations. A worldline action is an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Maor Ben-Shahar , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson

It has been shown that extremal Kerr black holes can be used as particle accelerators and arbitrarily high energy may be obtained near the event horizon. We study particle collisions near the event horizon (outer horizon) and Cauchy horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-12 Sijie Gao , Changchun Zhong

Long ago, Newman and Janis showed that a complex deformation $z\rightarrow z+i a$ of the Schwarzschild solution produces the Kerr solution. The underlying explanation for this relationship has remained obscure. The complex deformation has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Yu-tin Huang , Donal O'Connell

Short timescale variability is often associated with a black hole system. The consequence of an electromagnetic outflow suddenly generated near a Kerr black hole is considered assuming that it is described by a solution of a force-free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-25 Yasufumi Kojima , Yuto Kimura

Particle scattering and radiation by a magnetically charged, dilatonic black hole is investigated near the extremal limit at which the mass is a constant times the charge. Near this limit a neighborhood of the horizon of the black hole is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 S. B. Giddings , A. Strominger

We argue that the possibility of having infinite energy in the centre of mass frame of colliding particles is a generic property of rotating black holes. We suggest a general model-independent derivation valid for "dirty" black holes. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Oleg B. Zaslavskii

New coordinates are given which describe non-degenerate Kerr black holes in dual-null foliations based on the outer (or inner) horizons, generalizing the Kruskal form for Schwarzschild black holes. The construction involves an area radius…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Sean A. Hayward

It is thought that the final product of the gravitational collapse is a Kerr black hole and astronomers have discovered several good astrophysical candidates. While there is some indirect evidence suggesting that the latter have an event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-09 Cosimo Bambi

We demonstrate that the spinning LQG black hole can act as a cosmic particle accelerator. The LQG solution is singularity-free and can possess spin greater than that of a Kerr black hole. The additional black hole hair, arising from quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-09 Ullas P. Suresh , Karthik R , K. M. Ajith , Kartheek Hegde , Shreyas Punacha , A. Naveena Kumara

From the S-matrix of spinning particles, we extract the 2 PM conservative potential for binary spinning black holes up to quartic order in spin operators. An important ingredient is the exponentiated gravitational Compton amplitude in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-14 Wei-Ming Chen , Ming-Zhi Chung , Yu-tin Huang , Jung-Wook Kim

Thorne and Kidder give expressions which allow for analytical estimates of the "kick", it i.e. the recoil, produced from asymmetrical gravitational radiation during the interaction of black holes, or in fact any gravitating compact bodies.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-03-12 Sarah H. Miller , R. A. Matzner

A long march of fifty years of successive theoretical progress and new physics discovered using observations of gamma-ray bursts, has finally led to the formulation of an efficient mechanism able to extract the rotational energy of a Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-26 J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

We develop a systematic effective field theory calculation of the quasinormal modes of Kerr black holes valid for arbitrary spin, providing model-independent corrections to their ringdown spectrum directly relevant for gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-14 William L. Boyce , Jorge E. Santos