We show that elementary aligned electromagnetic excitations of black holes, as coming from exact Kerr–Schild solutions, represent light-like beams pulses which have a very strong back reaction on the metric and change the topology of the horizon. Based on York’s proposal, that elementary deformations of the BH horizon are related with elementary vacuum fluctuations, we analyze deformations of the horizon caused by the beam-like vacuum fluctuations and obtain a very specific feature of the topological deformations of the horizon. In particular, we show how the beams pierce the horizon, forming a multitude of micro-holes in it. A onjecture is taken into consideration, that these specific excitations are connected with the conformal-analytic properties of the Kerr geometry and are at the base of the emission mechanism.