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We present a novel approach which produces Dark Matter jets along the rotation axis of Kerr black holes utilizing the Penrose process. The properties of these jets are investigated, as well as their potential to create Dark Matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-09 Ottavia Balducci , Stefan Hofmann , Maximilian Koegler

Typical mechanisms to extract energies from a rotating black hole are the Blandford-Znajek process and the Penrose process. The Penrose process requires a special condition that is difficult to occur in common astrophysical situations.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-12 Myeonghwan Oh , Myeong-Gu Park

The center of mass (CM) energy in a collisional Penrose process - a collision taking place within the ergosphere of a Kerr black hole - can diverge under suitable extreme conditions (maximal Kerr, near horizon collision and suitable impact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-02 Elly Leiderschneider , Tsvi Piran

An introduction is given to a meeting on the role of massive and stellar black holes in powering non-thermal activity in a rich variety of cosmic sources. Relevant properties of magnetized, spinning black holes are summarized and their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-17 Roger Blandford

In the case involving particles the necessary and sufficient condition for the Penrose process to extract energy from a rotating black hole is absorption of particles with negative energies and angular momenta. No torque at the black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-04 J. -P. Lasota , E. Gourgoulhon , M. Abramowicz , A. Tchekhovskoy , R. Narayan

We investigate the extraction of the rotational energy of a black hole under different accreting environment. When the accretion rate is moderate, the accretion disk consists of an outer thin disk and an inner advection-dominated accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-08 Hung-Yi Pu , Kouichi Hirotani , Yosuke Mizuno , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

High-energy astrophysical sources such as active galactic nuclei, quasars, X-ray binaries, and gamma-ray bursts are powered by mechanisms that convert gravitational or rotational energy into radiation, jets, and relativistic outflows.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Parth Bambhaniya , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

In this paper, the Penrose process is being used to extract rotational energy from regular black holes. Initially, we consider the rotating Simpson-Visser regular spacetime which describes the class of geometries of the Kerr black hole's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-02 Vishva Patel , Kauntey Acharya , Parth Bambhaniya , Pankaj S. Joshi

The origin of the ultra-high-energy particles we receive on the Earth from the outer space such as EeV cosmic rays and PeV neutrinos remains an enigma. All mechanisms known to us currently make use of electromagnetic interaction to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-11 Mandar Patil , Tomohiro Harada , Ken-ichi Nakao , Pankaj S. Joshi , Masashi Kimura

We investigate the geometry, dynamics, and collision mechanisms in the ergoregion of KerrNewman-AdS black hole influenced by quintessential energy. Particle splittings within the ergoregion are analyzed, demonstrating their role in energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-21 K. Q. Abbasi , F. L. Carneiro , M. Z. A. Moughal

Energy extraction from a rotating or charged black hole is one of fascinating issues in general relativity. The collisional Penrose process is one of such extraction mechanisms and has been reconsidered intensively since Banados, Silk and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-15 Ken-ichi Nakao , Hirotada Okawa , Kei-ichi Maeda

The center-of-mass energy of two particles colliding near the horizon of a maximally rotating black hole can be arbitrarily high if the angular momentum of either of the incident particles is fine-tuned, which we call a critical particle.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Tomohiro Harada , Hiroya Nemoto , Umpei Miyamoto

The present study investigates the negative energy orbits and energy extraction efficiency using the magnetic Penrose process in various regular black hole geometries surrounded by electromagnetic fields. Utilizing numerical simulations, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Divyesh P. Viththani , Tapobroto Bhanja , Vishva Patel , Pankaj S. Joshi

Two particle collisions close to the horizon of the rotating nonextremal black hole are analyzed. It is shown that high energy of the order of the Grand Unification scale in the centre of mass of colliding particles can be obtained when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-23 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov , O. F. Piattella

The power carried by the jet of blazars is large, compared to the luminosity produced by their accretion disk, and is probably in the form of kinetic energy of a normal electron-proton plasma. The Poynting flux is modest, as suggested by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-18 G. Ghisellini

We compute a series of three-dimensional general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion flows in the Kerr metric to investigate the properties of the unbound outflows that result. The overall strength of these outflows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 John F. Hawley , Julian H. Krolik

Particle collisions in black hole ergoregions may result in extremely high center of mass energies that could probe new physics if escape to infinity were possible. Here we show that some geodesics at high inclinations to the equatorial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 J. Gariel , N. O. Santos , J. Silk

The exact mechanism by which astrophysical jets are formed is still unknown. It is believed that necessary elements are a rotating (Kerr) black hole and a magnetised accreting plasma. We model the accreting plasma as a collection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-10 V. S. Semenov , S. A. Dyadechkin , M. F. Heyn

Using long-duration general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of radiatively inefficient accretion discs, the energy, momentum and mass outflow rates from such systems are estimated. Outflows occur via two fairly distinct modes:…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Sadowski , R. Narayan , R. Penna , Y. Zhu

The properties of the ergosphere and energy extraction by Penrose process in a rotating non-Kerr black hole are investigated. It is shown that the ergosphere is sensitive to the deformation parameter $\epsilon$ and the shape of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-05 Changqing Liu , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing