Université de GenèveDépartement de Physique ThéoriqueCAP Genève

50 years of energy extraction from rotating black hole: revisiting magnetic Penrose process

Date: 
8. July 2019 - 11:00
Speaker: 
Naresh Dadhich (IUCCA)
In 1969 Penrose proposed a process by which black hole's rotational energy could be extracted by purely invoking geometric property of Kerr spacetime. I would review how this process beginning as thought experiment has evolved in 5o years as one of the most successful powering engine for high energy sources like quasars and AGNs.

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