# Black holes are neither particle accelerators nor dark matter probes.

@article{McWilliams2013BlackHA,
title={Black holes are neither particle accelerators nor dark matter probes.},
author={S. McWilliams},
journal={Physical review letters},
year={2013},
volume={110 1},
pages={
011102
}
}
• S. McWilliams
• Published 2013
• Physics, Medicine, Mathematics
• Physical review letters
It has been suggested that maximally spinning black holes can serve as particle accelerators, reaching arbitrarily high center-of-mass energies. Despite several objections regarding the practical achievability of such high energies, and demonstrations past and present that such large energies could never reach a distant observer, interest in this problem has remained substantial. We show that, unfortunately, a maximally spinning black hole can never serve as a probe of high energy collisions… Expand
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