Irreducible mass and energetics of an electromagnetic black hole

DOI10.1016/S0370-2693(02)02633-3zbMATH Open0998.83504arXivastro-ph/0209072OpenAlexW2033664417MaRDI QIDQ699183FDOQ699183

R. Ruffini, Luca Vitagliano

Publication date: 6 October 2002

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The mass-energy formula for a black hole endowed with electromagnetic structure (EMBH) is clarified for the nonrotating case. The irreducible mass $M_{mathrmirr}$ is found to be independent of the electromagnetic field and explicitly expressable as a function of the rest mass, the gravitational energy and the kinetic energy of the collapsing matter at the horizon. The electromagnetic energy is distributed throughout the entire region extending from the horizon of the EMBH to infinity. We discuss two conceptually different mechanisms of energy extraction occurring respectively in an EMBH with electromagnetic fields smaller and larger than the critical field for vacuum polarization. For a subcritical EMBH the energy extraction mechanism involves a sequence of discrete elementary processes implying the decay of a particle into two oppositely charged particles. For a supercritical EMBH an alternative mechanism is at work involving an electron-positron plasma created by vacuum polarization. The energetics of these mechanisms as well as the definition of the spatial regions in which thay can occur are given. The physical implementations of these ideas are outlined for ultrahigh energy cosmic rays UHECR) and gamma ray bursts (GRBs).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0209072

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zbMATH Keywords

mass-energy formulaelectron-positron plasmaenergy extraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57)

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