Shock acceleration in vortex driven magnetic fields of black holes

arXiv:2607.20209 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-22 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-07-22

Updated: 2026-09-16

Comments: 5 pages, 2 figures

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: The aim of this work is to investigate particle acceleration by shock waves in the magnetospheres of supermassive black holes, where the magnetic field is vortex-driven.

Abstract

The aim of this work is to investigate particle acceleration by shock waves in the magnetospheres of supermassive black holes, where the magnetic field is vortex-driven. For this purpose, we investigated the first-order Fermi acceleration process at relativistic shocks in the magnetospheres of supermassive black holes. In our analysis, we considered synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton scattering as the principal energy-loss mechanisms limiting the maximum attainable particle energy. We investigated the acceleration of both protons and electrons and demonstrated that, for a typical supermassive black hole with a mass of 10 8 solar masses, protons can be accelerated to energies of several hundred PeV, whereas electrons can attain energies of up to approximately 120 GeV.

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