A new type of charged black hole bomb

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-2656-5zbMATH Open1437.83058arXiv1903.02941OpenAlexW3098493325MaRDI QIDQ2295004FDOQ2295004

Authors: L. Di Menza, Jean-Philippe Nicolas, Mathieu Pellen 

Publication date: 12 February 2020

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

Abstract: Black hole bombs are usually constructed by surrounding an ergoregion by a mirror. The fields propagating between the event horizon and the mirror are prevented from escaping to infinity and reflected back to the ergoregion, thus undergoing repeated superradiant scattering which leads to a linear instability. We introduce a new construction in which the field is outside the mirror and is therefore prevented from falling into the black hole but is free to escape to infinity. Provided the mirror is inside the ergoregion, it turns out that this still causes linear instabilities. This behaviour is observed on Reissner-Nordstrom and de Sitter-Reissner-Nordstrom backgrounds using numerical simulations, based on a semi-implicit discretisation on a first-order system formulation of the partial differential equations governing the evolution of the scalar field. We also perform simulations for a standard black hole bomb and for another type of contraption: a sandwich black hole bomb.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.02941

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical simulationsuperradianceblack hole bombgeometric conserved currentnumerically conserved quantityReissner-Nordström

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75) PDEs in connection with relativity and gravitational theory (35Q75)

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• The extremal black hole bomb
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