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Description: 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* You can now support our research program and the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University: coolworldslab.com/support References: ► Hawking, Stephen (1974), "Black hole explosions?", Nature, 248, 30: 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.26.331 ► 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: eso.org/public/videos/eso1706a ► Sun turning into a black hole credit to ESA/Hubble/M. Kornmesser: youtu.be/nKCqZAPGwNE ► Black hole animation credit to CGI 3D Animated Short: "INTRA" by Thomas Vanz: youtu.be/3bLURyrFNJY ► Black hole merger animation by LIGO Lab Caltech/MIT/Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes: youtu.be/I_88S8DWbcU ► Falling into a black hole animation by Ziri Younsi: youtu.be/S6qw5_YA8iE ► Hawking radiation animation credit to BBC. ► Dark matter web simulation by Jinrong Xie: youtu.be/YOVg7b9SsZk ► Core collapse supernova simulation by Sean Couch: youtu.be/KhT5yHTWgxc 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/) And also... ► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: astro.columbia.edu ► Cool Worlds Lab website: coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Cool Worlds Long Form Videos ► bit.ly/CoolWorldsEssays Guest Videos ► bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Tabby's Star ► bit.ly/TabbysStar Science of TV/Film ► bit.ly/ScienceMovies SUBSCRIBE to the channel bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe THANKS FOR WATCHING!! #TinyShinyBlackHoles #MicroBlackHoles #CoolWorlds