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The current popular model for launching, accelerating and collimating astrophysical jets is based on magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). AGN jets are most probably powered by energy extracted from either an accretion disk or a rapidly rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Max Camenzind

Radiation emitted from an accretion disk around a massive black hole is a widely discussed model for the UV/soft X-ray excess emission observed in the spectra of many AGN. A self-consistent calculation of the structure and the emerging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-02 T. Doerrer , H. Riffert , R. Staubert , H. Ruder

We propose that radio-quiet quasars and Seyfert galaxies have central black holes powering outflows and jets which propagate only for a short distance, because the velocity of the ejected material is smaller than the escape velocity. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghisellini , F. Haardt , G. Matt

We explore the extraction of energy from a rotating black hole spacetime modified by a quantum correction parameter \( \alpha \). Focusing on particle splitting within the ergoregion, we analyze the Penrose process and compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Urooj Fatima , G. Abbas

We study the relativistic, inviscid, advective accretion flow around the black holes and investigate a key feature of the accretion flow, namely the shock waves. We observe that the shock-induced accretion solutions are prevalent and such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Santabrata Das , Anuj Nandi , C. S. Stalin , Suvendu Rakshit , Indu Kalpa Dihingia , Swapnil Singh , Ramiz Aktar , Samik Mitra

Production and acceleration mechanisms of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) of energy $>10^{20}$eV, clearly beyond the GZK-cutoff limit remain unclear that points to exotic nature of the phenomena. Recent observations of extragalactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-26 Arman Tursunov , Zdeněk Stuchlík , Martin Kološ , Naresh Dadhich , Bobomurat Ahmedov

Kerr black holes are energetically similar to spinning tops accompanied by frame dragging in the surrounding spacetime. Frame dragging is shown herein to be a universal causal agent for producing multi-messenger emissions. We discuss high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-02-04 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Active galaxies and quasers are believed to harbour Black Holes at their centers and at the same time produce cosmic radio jets through which immense amount of matter and energy are ejected out of the core of the galaxy. In our work we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tapas K. Das

We analyze the energy extraction by the Penrose process in higher dimensions. Our result shows the efficiency of the process from higher dimensional black holes and black rings can be rather high compared with than that in four dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-19 Masato Nozawa , Kei-ichi Maeda

Spinning black holes create electromagnetic storms when immersed in ambient magnetic fields, illuminating the otherwise epically dark terrain. In an electromagnetic extension of the Penrose process, tremendous energy can be extracted,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Kshitij Gupta , Y. T. Albert Law , Janna Levin

In this paper, we study the Penrose process and the maximum energy extracted from the collision of two particles near the Kerr-Newman black hole with WGC condition. We consider the collision process when two particles collide in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-10 E. Naghd Mezerji , J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan

Theoretical models for the production of relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei predict that jet power arises from the spin and mass of the central black hole, as well as the magnetic field near the event horizon. The physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi , A. Celotti , T. Sbarrato

We analyze the extraction of the rotational energy of a Kerr black hole (BH) endowed with a test charge and surrounded by an external test magnetic field and ionized low-density matter. For a magnetic field parallel to the BH spin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 J. A. Rueda , R. Ruffini

Kerr black holes radiate neutrinos in an asymmetric pattern, preferentially in the lower hemisphere relative to the black hole's rotation axis, while antineutrinos are predominantly produced in the upper hemisphere. Leveraging this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-13 Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez

Black hole (BH) mergers are natural sources of gravitational waves (GWs) and are possibly associated with electromagnetic events. Such events from a charged rotating BH with an accretion on to it could be more energetic and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-27 Shad Ali

Penrose described a process that, in principle, could extract energy and angular momentum from a rotating black hole. Here we examine two procedures that were claimed to be capable of implementing the Penrose idea; both make use of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-20 Leon Heller

Magnetic Penrose process (MPP) is not only the most exciting and fascinating process mining the rotational energy of black hole but it is also the favored astrophysically viable mechanism for high energy sources and phenomena. It operates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-28 Arman Tursunov , Naresh Dadhich

Recent observations of Sgr A* give strong constraints for possible models of the physical nature of Sgr A* and suggest the presence of a massive black~hole with M<2 10^6 M_sun surrounded by an accretion disk which we estimate to radiate at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 Heino Falcke , Peter L. Biermann , Wolfgang J. Duschl , Peter G. Mezger

The UV continuum spectrum of quasars and AGN is assumed to originate from an accreting disk surrounding a massive rotating black hole. We discuss the structure and emission spectra of a disk which drives a powerful jet. Due to the large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alina-Catalina Donea , Peter L. Biermann

A co-rotating bosonic field interacting with a spinning Kerr black hole can extract rotational energy and angular momentum from the hole. This intriguing phenomenon is known as superradiant scattering. As pointed out by Press and Teukolsky,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Shahar Hod