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I have here a quote from Hartle's Gravity, page 321:
"The fraction of rest energy that can be released in making a transition from an unbound orbit far from an extremal black hole to the most bound innermost stable circular orbit is [itex](1-1/\sqrt{3})\approx 42\%[/itex]".
My question is about releasing an electron into a black hole in precisely this fashion. An electron is a fundamental particle, hence, cannot decay into other fundamental particles. Then how is the electron losing about 40% of its rest energy during this process?
"The fraction of rest energy that can be released in making a transition from an unbound orbit far from an extremal black hole to the most bound innermost stable circular orbit is [itex](1-1/\sqrt{3})\approx 42\%[/itex]".
My question is about releasing an electron into a black hole in precisely this fashion. An electron is a fundamental particle, hence, cannot decay into other fundamental particles. Then how is the electron losing about 40% of its rest energy during this process?