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Superradiance: New Frontiers in Black Hole Physics

Superradiance: New Frontiers in Black Hole Physics

Paperback

Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, Book 971

Astronomy & SpacePhysics

ISBN10: 3030466213
ISBN13: 9783030466213
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 21 2020
Pages: 293
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book focuses on one mechanism in black hole physics which has proven to be universal, multifaceted and with a rich phenomenology: rotational superradiance. This is an energy extraction process, whereby black holes can deposit their rotational energy in their surroundings, leading to Penrose processes, black-hole bombs, and even Hawking radiation. Black holes are key players in star formation mechanisms and as engines to some of the most violent events in our universe. Their simplicity and compactness make them perfect laboratories, ideally suited to probe new fields or modifications to the theory of gravity. Thus, black holes can also be used to probe some of the most important open problems in physics, including the nature of dark matter or the strong CP problem in particle physics.

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