Stay updated with breaking news from Luca Comisso. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
One of the biggest mysteries of our time is whether or not intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe, and it appears that we may be able to get some answers to this question by taking a [...]
Edwin Starr once asked the musical question: “War – what is it good for?” and provided the musical answer: “Absolutely nothing.” You could “say it again” about black holes. While all of their negative qualities are well known – sucking up everything within their gravitational pull, including light – no one seems to have figured out what they might be good for … until now. An astrophysicist at New York’s Columbia University claims their energy can be harvested and used to power anything that needs massive amounts of fuel – and that is the best way for us to discover bla...
Study indicates that energy can be extracted from black holes A new study indicates that, someday, energy could be extracted from black holes. January 19, 2021 A remarkable prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity -- the theory that connects space, time and gravity -- is that rotating black holes have enormous amounts of energy available to be tapped. For the last 50 years, scientists have tried to come up with methods to unleash this power. Physical Review D, physicists Luca Comisso of Columbia University and Felipe Asenjo of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile have found a...
15 JANUARY 2021 For decades, scientists have wrestled with a complex mystery of physics: Could the immense amounts of energy theoretically produced by rotating black holes ever be tapped by human hands? If future societies were somehow able to pull off this magnificent feat, the power supply of far-off galactic civilisations would seemingly be assured - and now scientists have a new explanation for how such an exotic extraction might one day be possible. "Black holes are commonly surrounded by a hot 'soup' of plasma particles that carry a magnetic field," explains astrophysicist Luca Comi...
Scientists find new way to harness energy from black holes Credit: NASA, and M. Weiss (Chandra X -ray Center). Physicists have found a new way to extract energy from black holes by breaking and rejoining magnetic field lines near the event horizon. A remarkable prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity–the theory that connects space, time, and gravity–is that rotating black holes have enormous amounts of energy available to be tapped. For the last 50 years, scientists have tried to come up with methods to unleash this power. Nobel physicist Roger Penrose theorized that a pa...