Tiny Shiny Black Holes

Black holes are one of the most bizarre and terrifying results from general relativity - a singularity of infinite density from which even light cannot escape. Black holes fascinate us and this has led some to wonder if the could even be used as a power source. Micro black holes, that is black holes much lighter than a star, could be one of way of doing this. Today we explore the possibilities of a micro black hole and exactly how it might be possible to turn them into power banks.

Written and Presented by Prof. David Kipping. All planet images/videos shown are artistic impressions and not real photographs, except for the reconstructed image of Messier 87*

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References:
► Hawking, Stephen (1974), "Black hole explosions?", Nature, 248, 30: www.nature.com/articles/248030a0
► Carter, Brandon (1971), "Axisymmetric Black Hole Has Only Two Degrees of Freedom", Physics Review Letters, 26, 331: journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.…
► Newman, E. T., Couch, E., Chinnapared, K., Exton, A., Prakash, A., Torrence, R. (1965), "Metric of a Rotating, Charged Mass", Journal of Mathematical Physics, 6, 918: aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1704351
► Crane, L. & Westmoreland, S. (2009), "Are Black Hole Starships Possible", arXiv e-prints 0908.1803: arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803
► Kipping, David (2018), "The Halo Drive: Fuel-free relativistic propulsion of large masses via recycled boomerang photons", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 71, 458: arxiv.org/abs/1903.03423

Video materials and graphics used:
► ESO animations credit to ESO and Herbert Zodet: www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1706a/
► Sun turning into a black hole credit to ESA/Hubble/M. Kornmesser:    • What If The Sun Became A Black Hole? ...  
► Black hole animation credit to CGI 3D Animated Short: "INTRA" by Thomas Vanz:    • CGI 3D Animated Short: "INTRA"  - by ...  
► Black hole merger animation by LIGO Lab Caltech/MIT/Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes:    • Two Black Holes Merge into One  
► Falling into a black hole animation by Ziri Younsi:    • Falling into a black hole (Realistic ...  
► Hawking radiation animation credit to BBC.
► Dark matter web simulation by Jinrong Xie:    • Cosmic Web: What the universe looks l...  
► Core collapse supernova simulation by Sean Couch:    • Petascale Simulation of Magnetorotati...  

Music used, in chronological order:
► Cylinder Seven (chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/) by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
► Cylinder Eight (chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/) by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
► Cylinder Four (chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/) by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
► Music from Neptune Flux, "Stories About the World That Once Was" by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/neptuneflux/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
► Music from Halo Drive, "Fusion" by Indive (indive.bandcamp.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (indive.bandcamp.com/album/halo-drive)
► Music from Neptune Flux, "We Were Never Meant To Live Here" by Chris Zabriskie (chriszabriskie.com/neptuneflux/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: www.astro.columbia.edu/
► Cool Worlds Lab website: coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu/

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