Collimated escaping vortical polar e-e+ jets intrinsically produced by rotating black holes and penrose processes

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 611, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 952-963

  Williams, Reva Kay ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Acceleration of particles; Black hole physics; Elementary particles; Gravitation; Relativity

Indexed keywords

EID: 6044267648     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422304     Document Type: Article

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