Black holes as particle accelerators: a brief review

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/24/243001zbMATH Open1307.83031arXiv1409.7502OpenAlexW2170161677MaRDI QIDQ2941015FDOQ2941015

Authors: Tomohiro Harada, Masashi Kimura 

Publication date: 21 January 2015

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Rapidly rotating Kerr black holes can accelerate particles to arbitrarily high energy if the angular momentum of the particle is fine-tuned to some critical value. This phenomenon is robust as it is founded on the basic properties of geodesic orbits around a near-extremal Kerr black hole. On the other hand, the maximum energy of the acceleration is subjected to several physical effects. There is convincing evidence that the particle acceleration to arbitrarily high energy is one of the universal properties of general near-extremal black holes. We also discuss gravitational particle acceleration in more general context. This article is intended to provide a pedagogical introduction to and a brief overview of this topic for non-specialists.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.7502

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zbMATH Keywords

Kerr black holesgeodesic orbits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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