A New Idea to Harness Energy From Black Holes

[Seldom Bucket]

Fifty years ago, English mathematical physicist and Nobel-prize winner Roger Penrose proposed that energy could be extracted from the space around a rotating black hole. Known as the ergosphere, this region lies just outside an event horizon, the boundary within which nothing can escape a black hole’s gravitational pull (even light). It is also here where infalling matter is accelerated to incredible speeds and emits all kinds of energy.


This became known as the Penrose Process, which many theorists have since expanded on. The latest comes from a study conducted by researchers from Columbia University and the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. With support from organizations like NASA, they demonstrated how a better understanding of the physics at work around spinning black holes could allow us to harness their energy someday.

A New Idea to Harness Energy From Black Holes

A new study by an international team shows how the physics of a black hole's event horizon could allow us to harness limitless energy from them someday.

www.universetoday.com

 

[Jings]

First scientists need to study all the possible consequences of harnessing energy from the ergosphere before even attempting such a feat. We don't what kind of malevolent entities might be lurking in the event horizon.

 

[Lara]

I'm curious to know how they plan to transmit the power or will it be limited to nearby space stations or Dyson spheres?

 

[spiderz]

I'm curious to know how they plan to transmit the power or will it be limited to nearby space stations or Dyson spheres?

Think micro-black hole generators ... like nuclear reactor, just more power

 

[Jings]

Think micro-black hole generators ... like nuclear reactor, just more power

What happened to spiderz?

He accidentally got sucked into his black hole generator.

 

[Urist]

Think micro-black hole generators ... like nuclear reactor, just more power

might have one in the solar system already

Is Planet Nine a black hole or a planet? Harvard scientists suggest a

Scientists propose a method to determine, once and for all, if any planet-mass black holes are lurking in the outer solar system.

astronomy.com

10 times the mass of Earth

roughly the size of a grapefruit

 

[Lara]

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Scientist aren't creative when naming things.