arXiv:0911.2243·v2·General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Comment on "Kerr Black Holes as Particle Accelerators to Arbitrarily High Energy"
Emanuele Berti🇺🇸 · Vitor Cardoso🇺🇸 · Leonardo Gualtieri🇮🇹 · Frans Pretorius🇺🇸 · Ulrich Sperhake🇺🇸
Abstract
It has been suggested that rotating black holes could serve as particle colliders with arbitrarily high center-of-mass energy. Astrophysical limitations on the maximal spin, back-reaction effects and sensitivity to the initial conditions impose severe limits on the likelihood of such collisions.
Comments: Accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters. v2: Published version