Scientists Said Black Holes Might Be Used as Power-House in Future

 Black holes could be used for power generation for future off-planet peoples. The idea might sound complicated, rather impossible. But, the researchers of Chile’s Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and Columbia University said that it is possible to achieve, at least theoretically.

A black hole is a zone of spacetime that has a strong gravitational pull. The black hole’s gravity is so powerful that neither particle nor electromagnetic radiation can escape from the attraction pull. The line or boundary from which no escape is possible is known as the “event horizon.” The event horizon has no physical features to detect its presence. According to the quantum field theory in curved spacetime, the event horizon emits radiation, known as “Hawking radiation.” The radiation has the same spectrum as a “black body” that emits no light.

Black hole possesses enormous energy within them. To make a black hole, one needs to squeeze a star ten times bigger than Earth into a sphere to a New York City radius. They are extremely dense and have a huge mass. According to Albert Einstein’s equation (E=MC2), black holes have a lot of energy, and collecting that energy won’t be that easy. Researchers are saying that we could gather all that power; theoretically, that could provide us energy for a lifetime.

The professor of Physics at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Felipe Asenjo, explained that if we could rotate two parts around a black hole in the right position. And if they pushed one of them into the black hole while keeping the other one at a safe distance from the event horizon to avoid the gravitational pull. Then the outer device can store the escaping energy of the first one.

The researchers discuss gathering the energy of the charged plasma particles that escape from the event horizon. In a more straightforward word, the scientists are planning to extract the power from the spacetime zone’s curvature.

The scientist at Columbia University, Luca Comisso, shared that all the discussions of generating energy from a black hole were all theatrical. However, the team worked on the mathematical part of plasma physics’s theoretical hypothesis and general relativity. They figured out that we can extract the black hole energy by reconnecting the magnetic field near the event horizon.

A black hole can convert 40% of the mass into energy. To understand it better, the best energy producers we have right now are nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, which only collect 0.7% of the potential energy in mass.

However, finding a black hole is not easy. To reach the neighborhood of the nearest black hole would take us around 12 million years. Also, the scientists would require advanced tools to perform the hypothetical experiment.

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