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most citedFirst Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

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astro-ph.HE2014

Black hole spin down in GRB observations and Cosmology

Antonios Nathanail, Ioannis Contopoulos, Spyros Basilakos

According to Blandford & Znajek (1977), energy can be extracted electromagnetically from a rotating black hole, should the latter be endowed with a magnetic field supported by elec…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 88 cited

Black Hole Magnetospheres

Antonios Nathanail, Ioannis Contopoulos

We investigate the structure of the steady-state force-free magnetosphere around a Kerr black hole in various astrophysical settings. The solution Psi(r,theta) depends on the distr…