The spinning Kerr-black-hole-mirror bomb: A lower bound on the radius of the reflecting mirror

The intriguing superradiant amplification phenomenon allows an orbiting scalar field to extract rotational energy from a spinning Kerr black hole. Interestingly, the energy extraction rate can grow exponentially in time if the black-hole-field system is placed inside a reflecting mirror which preven...

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Main Author: Shahar Hod
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-10-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269316304658