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Habitable Zones around Almost Extremely Spinning Black Holes (Black Sun Revisited)

BAKALA, Pavel, Jan DOČEKAL and Zuzana TUROŇOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Habitable Zones around Almost Extremely Spinning Black Holes (Black Sun Revisited)

Authors

BAKALA, Pavel (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan DOČEKAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Zuzana TUROŇOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Astrophysical Journal, GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a, 2020, 0004-637X

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10308 Astronomy

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19630/20:A0000038

Organization unit

Institute of physics in Opava

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5dab

UT WoS

000520122300001

Keywords in English

Kerr black holes; Supermassive black holes; Exoplanets; Gravitational lensing; Cosmic microwave background radiation

Tags

EF16_027-0008521, , FÚ2020, RIV21, SGS13-2019

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

Links

EF16_027/0008521, research and development project. GA17-16287S, research and development project.
Změněno: 13/9/2022 08:57, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Abstract

V originále

We analyzed the thermodynamics of hypothetical exoplanets at very low Keplerian circular orbits in close vicinity of rapidly spinning supermassive black holes. Such black hole exoplanets are heated by strongly blueshifted and focused flux of the incoming cosmic microwave background (CMB) and cooled by the cold part of the local sky containing the black hole shadow. This gives rise to a temperature difference, which can drive processes far from thermodynamic equilibrium in a hypothetical life form inhabiting black hole exoplanets, similar to the case of a planet heated by the radiation of the parent star and cooled by the night sky. We found that for a narrow range of radii of very low Keplerian circular orbits and for very high spin of a supermassive black hole, the temperature regime of the black hole exoplanets corresponds to the habitable zone around standard stars. The thermodynamics of black hole exoplanets therefore, in principle, does not exclude the existence of life based on known biology. The peak of the multiblackbody spectral profile of the CMB heating the exoplanet is located in the ultraviolet band, but a significant fraction of the flux comes also in the visible and infrared bands. The minimum mass of a black hole ensuring the resistance to tidal disruption of an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone is estimated to 1.63 10(8) m.
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