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Main Authors: Mummery, Andrew, Silk, Joseph
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01437
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author Mummery, Andrew
Silk, Joseph
author_facet Mummery, Andrew
Silk, Joseph
contents We show that collisions between particles free falling from infinity and a disk of material plunging off the retrograde innermost stable circular orbit of a near-extremal Kerr black hole is the unique astronomically natural way in which to create a gravitational particle accelerator with center of mass energies at the $10$'s to $100$'s of teraelectronvolt range, in other words a supercollider.
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spellingShingle Black hole supercolliders
Mummery, Andrew
Silk, Joseph
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We show that collisions between particles free falling from infinity and a disk of material plunging off the retrograde innermost stable circular orbit of a near-extremal Kerr black hole is the unique astronomically natural way in which to create a gravitational particle accelerator with center of mass energies at the $10$'s to $100$'s of teraelectronvolt range, in other words a supercollider.
title Black hole supercolliders
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01437