Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-11-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 Latex pp., including 3 eps figs. (aipproc.sty macros), to appear in proceedings, 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrop
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1419591
For almost four decades, since the discovery of quasars, mounting observational evidence has accumulated that black holes indeed exist in nature. In this paper, I present a theoretical and numerical (Monte Carlo) fully relativistic 4-D analysis of Penrose scattering processes (Compton at radii between the marginally stable, marginally bound orbits and gamma-gamma-->$e^-e^+$ pair production at the photon orbit) in the ergosphere of a supermassive Kerr (rotating) black hole. These model calculations surprisingly reveal that the observed high energies and luminosities of quasars and other active galactic nuclei (AGNs), the collimated jets about the polar axis, and the asymmetrical jets (which can be enhanced by relativistic Doppler beaming effects) all are inherent properties of rotating black holes. From this analysis, it is shown that the Penrose scattered escaping relativistic particles exhibit tightly wound coil-like cone distributions (highly collimated vortical jet distributions) about the polar axis, with helical polar angles of escape varying from $0.5^o$ to $30^o$ for the highest energy particles. It is also shown that the gravitomagnetic (GM) field, which causes the dragging of inertial frames, exerts a force acting on the momentum vectors of the incident and scattered particles, causing the particle emission to be asymmetrical above and below the equatorial plane, thus appearing to break the equatorial reflection symmetry of the Kerr metric. This energy-momentum extraction model can be applied to any size black hole, irrespective of the mass, and therefore applies to microquasars as well.
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