Collisions near Kerr black holes: lower limit of energy between orbiting and incoming particles

DOI10.1007/S10714-016-2174-7MaRDI QIDQ2012368zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Mieszko Rutkowski

Publication date 31 July 2017

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.05302

zbMATH Keywords

energyKerr black holeSchwarzschildparticle collisions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: In our paper we investigate the lower limit of collisional energy of test particles near the Kerr black hole. In particular we examine the minimal Lorentz factor between the freely falling particles and the particles orbiting around a black hole. We consider collisions on the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO) and examine near--extreme case, where collisions take place near an event horizon. By fine--tuning the particles' angular momentum, the Lorentz factor of the collision can always be minimized to a value dependent on the black hole's spin. We identified that this minimal value is always less than $frac2sqrt2-1sqrt3$ and more than $fracsqrt12-1sqrt6$ (the limits are the values for an extreme Kerr and Schwarzschild, respectively). It implies that this kind of collisions of compact objects are expected to be highly energetic near supermassive black holes. In addition, we show that an interaction between black hole's and particle's spins has an influence on minimal Lorentz factor. This contribution is nonnegligible for near--extreme black holes. We also discuss the relation between our results and sci--fi movie Interstellar.

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