2025/06/02 by Mummery, Andrew, Silk, Joseph · 2 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2506.01437
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.