Black holes are some of the most mysterious and powerful forces in the universe, but what if that power could be harnessed? Well, that’s exactly what researchers from Tianjin University in China are now proposing, suggesting that the future of energy could come from tiny black holes.
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00:00 Black holes are some of the most mysterious and powerful forces in the universe.
00:07 But what if that power could be harnessed?
00:09 That's exactly what researchers from Tianjin University in China are now proposing, suggesting
00:14 that the future of energy could come from tiny black holes.
00:17 I know what you're thinking, anything that crosses a black hole's event horizon can
00:20 never come out again.
00:21 And that's true.
00:22 However, their new theory doesn't deal with what's inside the black hole, but rather what's
00:26 directly around it.
00:27 The strongest gravitational concentrations we know of.
00:30 This theory also deals with primordial black holes, or ones that are not supermassive and
00:34 tens of billions of times the size of our sun, but rather tiny, even subatomic.
00:39 Those are believed to have formed from excess primordial plasma in the moment shortly after
00:43 the Big Bang.
00:44 The only problem is we're not sure they even exist.
00:46 If they do, it's conceivable we could use a black hole's own gravity to produce electricity
00:51 by converting its non-electric gravitational energy into electrical power, essentially
00:56 turning it into a battery.
00:57 And they add it could be re-upped with charged particles, even those released as a byproduct
01:02 of radioactive decay.
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