Energetics of particle collisions near dirty rotating extremal black holes: Banados-Silk-West effect versus Penrose process

Abstract

If two particles collide near the horizon of a rotating extremal black hole, under certain conditions the energy E_{c.m.} in the center-of-mass frame can grow without limit (the so-called Banados-Silk-West effect). We consider collisions that produce two other particles. We show that for a generic dirty (surrounded by matter) black hole, there exist upper bounds on the energy and mass of product particles which can be detected at infinity. As a result, the positive energy gain is possible but is quite modest. It mainly depends on two numbers in which near-horizon behavior of the metric is encoded. The obtained results suggest astrophysical limits on the possibility of observation of the products of the collisional Banados-Silk-West effect. These results are consistent with recent calculations for the Kerr metric, extending them to generic dirty black holes. It is shown that for dirty black holes there are types of scenarios of energy extraction impossible in the Kerr case.

31 pages. Final version to appear in PRD

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