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That would make physicists happy. Once you locate it, you could observe and study it with satellites.
by nabla9 5y ago
That would make physicists happy. Once you locate it, you could observe and study it with satellites.
- Chris2048 5y agoplus: a way of generating energy (I think that one depends on spin?) and a way of accelerating spacecraft.
- rbanffy 5y agoMatter tends to glow in agony when falling into a black hole while the tidal forces shred its atoms apart. Tidal forces should be pretty rough at this size. The hard part of using a black hole for propulsion is that you’ll need to drag a planetary mass along. It’s an interesting engineering problem.
- kadoban 5y agoThere's also the Penrose process which is theoretically useful on spinning black holes. I also watched this in the past, which has some fun ideas (that are probably a little fanciful?) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ulCdoCfw-bY tl;dw: put a mirror around it and shine light in, get back lots of energy and/or blow up your whole solar system. I'm not sure if any of that would apply to a ~planet mass black hole spinning with ~planet sized angular momentum, or how solid the physics even is, but it sounds cool anyway.
- rbanffy 5y ago> get back lots of energy and/or blow up your whole solar system. Fun concept - a bomb you can't throw without it dragging your world along.
- Chris2048 5y agowrt propulsion I meant a gravity assist, passing by the BH much closer than you would a planet.
- pixl97 5y agoYep dropping matter in it would allow us to study physics at much higher energy than we can generate here on earth.