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A toy model for the Blandford-Znajek mechanism is investigated: a Kerr black hole with a toroidal electric current residing in a thin disk around the black hole. The toroidal electric current generates a poloidal magnetic field threading…

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

Magnetic reconnection has been extensively shown to be a promising approach to extract spinning black hole energy. In this paper, we focus on extracting spinning wormhole energy via such mechanism. The study shows that it is indeed possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-06 Xu Ye , Chao-Hui Wang , Shao-Wen Wei

An analytical expression for the disc power is derived based on an equivalent circuit in black hole (BH) magnetosphere with a mapping relation between the radial coordinate of the disc and that of unknown astrophysical load. It turns out…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Long Gong Ding-Xiong Wang , Yong-Chun Ye

The mass of a black hole is the sum of the irreducible mass and the mass associated with the rotational or spin energy of the black hole. The contribution of spin energy (divided by $c^2$) to the total black hole mass is studied here for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-26 Ruth A. Daly

In this paper, we investigate the power and efficiency of energy extraction through magnetic reconnection in the Kerr-Sen-AdS$_{4}$ black hole, with a primary focus on both the circular orbit and plunging region. We plot the allowed regions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-18 Xiao-Xiong Zeng , Ke Wang

The Comisso-Asenjo mechanism is a novel mechanism proposed recently to extract energy from black holes through magnetic reconnection of the surrounding charged plasma, in which the magnetic field plays a crucial role. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-22 Shao-Jun Zhang

Recent work has called into question whether nature can extract the rotational energy of a black hole via electromagnetic fields by appealing to an alleged ability to absorb current. We describe the strategies needed to properly treat the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-16 David Garofalo , Chandra B. Singh

Based on the magnetic reconnection mechanism, this study investigates how to extract energy effectively from an accelerating Kerr black hole in the plunging region and circular orbit region. After introducing the properties of accelerating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-03 Ke Wang , Xiao-Xiong Zeng

Recently, it has been demonstrated by Comisso and Asenjo that magnetic reconnection processes in the ergosphere of a Kerr black hole can provide us with a promising mechanism for extracting the rotational energy from it. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-25 Zhen Li , Xiao-Kan Guo , Faqiang Yuan

By performing two-dimensional axisymmetric general relativistic radiation magnetohydrodynamics simulations with spin parameter $a^*$ varying from -0.9 to 0.9, we investigate the dependence on the black hole spin of the energy flow from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Aoto Utsumi , Ken Ohsuga , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi , Yuta Asahina

Relativistic jets from black holes can extract energy not only from accretion but also directly from the black hole's spin, as described by the Blandford-Znajek mechanism. A longstanding question is whether magnetic flux can accumulate near…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 Antonios Nathanail

As a complementary or companion process to the Blandford-Znajek mechanism for the rotational energy extraction from a Kerr black hole to serve as a viable model for the central engine of quasar, AGN and even GRB, the magnetic alignment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Hongsu Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee , Chul H. Lee

When a particle moves around a Kerr black hole, it radiates gravitational waves.Some of these waves are absorbed by the black hole. We calculate such absorption of gravitational waves induced by a particle of mass mu in a circular orbit on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Hideyuki Tagoshi , Shuhei Mano , Eiichi Takasugi

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

We calculate the evolution of the prompt intrinsic Poynting power generated by merging black holes. Orbiting black holes induce rotation of the space-time. In a presence of magnetic field supported by an accretion disk outside of the orbit,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-22 Maxim Lyutikov

The mass--energy formula of black holes implies that up to 50% of the energy can be extracted from a static black hole. Such a result is reexamined using the recently established analytic formulas for the collapse of a shell and expression…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Remo Ruffini , Luca Vitagliano

Magnetic reconnection within a highly magnetized plasma has been seen as a viable mechanism to extract the energy from a rotating black hole, as it can generate negative energy plasmoids in the ergoregion. For a typical accreting black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-08 Bin Chen , Yehui Hou , Junyi Li , Ye Shen

The influence of disc radiation capture upon black hole rotational evolution is negligible for radiatively inefficient discs. For the standard thin disc model it is a slight but potentially important effect leading to the equilibrium spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Pavel Abolmasov

We consider the power of a relativistic jet accelerated by the magnetic field of an accretion disc. It is found that the power extracted from the disc is mainly determined by the field strength and configuration of the field far from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Xinwu Cao

The Cauchy problem is considered for the scalar wave equation in the Kerr geometry. We prove that by choosing a suitable wave packet as initial data, one can extract energy from the black hole, thereby putting supperradiance, the wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Felix Finster , Niky Kamran , Joel Smoller , Shing-Tung Yau