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* You can now support our research program and the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University: https://www.coolworldslab.com/support References: ► Hawking, Stephen (1974), "Black hole explosions?", Nature, 248, 30: https://www.nature.com/articles/248030a0 ► Carter, Brandon (1971), "Axisymmetric Black Hole Has Only Two Degrees of Freedom", Physics Review Letters, 26, 331: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... ► 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: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063... ► Crane, L. & Westmoreland, S. (2009), "Are Black Hole Starships Possible", arXiv e-prints 0908.1803: https://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: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03423 Video materials and graphics used: ► ESO animations credit to ESO and Herbert Zodet: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso... ► Sun turning into a black hole credit to ESA/Hubble/M. Kornmesser:    • What If The Sun Became A Black Hole? [1080p]   ► Black hole animation credit to CGI 3D Animated Short: "INTRA" by Thomas Vanz:    • CGI 3D Animated Short: "INTRA"  - by Thoma...   ► 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 Ultra...   ► Hawking radiation animation credit to BBC. ► Dark matter web simulation by Jinrong Xie:    • Cosmic Web: What the universe looks like a...   ► Core collapse supernova simulation by Sean Couch:    • Petascale Simulation of Magnetorotational ...   Music used, in chronological order: ► Cylinder Seven (http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/) by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) ► Cylinder Eight (http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/) by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) ► Cylinder Four (http://chriszabriskie.com/cylinders/) by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) ► Music from Neptune Flux, "Stories About the World That Once Was" by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/neptuneflux/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) ► Music from Halo Drive, "Fusion" by Indive (https://indive.bandcamp.com); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (https://indive.bandcamp.com/album/hal...) ► Music from Neptune Flux, "We Were Never Meant To Live Here" by Chris Zabriskie (http://chriszabriskie.com/neptuneflux/); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...) And also... ► Columbia University Department of Astronomy: http://www.astro.columbia.edu ► Cool Worlds Lab website: http://coolworlds.astro.columbia.edu Latest Cool Worlds Videos ► http://bit.ly/NewCoolWorlds Cool Worlds Research ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsResearch Cool Worlds Long Form Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsEssays Guest Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsGuests Q&A Videos ► http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsQA Tabby's Star ► http://bit.ly/TabbysStar Science of TV/Film ► http://bit.ly/ScienceMovies SUBSCRIBE to the channel http://bit.ly/CoolWorldsSubscribe THANKS FOR WATCHING!! #TinyShinyBlackHoles #MicroBlackHoles #CoolWorlds