Inspiral into Gargantua

We model the inspiral of a compact object into a more massive black hole rotating very near the theoretical maximum. We find that once the body enters the near-horizon regime the gravitational radiation is characterized by a constant frequency, equal to (twice) the horizon frequency, with an exponen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Gralla, Samuel E, Hughes, Scott A, Warburton, Niels J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: IOP Publishing 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121177