Energy extraction from boosted black holes: Penrose process, jets, and the membrane at infinity

Numerical simulations indicate that black holes carrying linear momentum and/or orbital momentum can power jets. The jets extract the kinetic energy stored in the black hole’s motion. This could provide an important electromagnetic counterpart to gravitational wave searches. We develop the theory un...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Penna, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/96722
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3932-6174