Hey Kyle, your content is brings me back to the joy of my elementary bill nye days. Do you have plans to cover String theory ? I think it would be a great video.
We can harness nuclear energy now, and yet, ppl are to afraid of its power, so much that its almost useless. I cant imagine what would happen if we could make "black hole power plant" like structure on Earth, or we make artificial black hole in/near Solar System. So, more u educate ppl about black holes, chances are lower that we will make something like this, because ppl will be more aware of danger.
I laughed at the intro, raced over to show my girlfriend and she said “I don’t get it” I asked, “Don’t you think he looks like a discount Chris Hemsworth?” “No, to me he looks like a buff Shia LaBeouf.”
An alternative to this would be to strap a slice of bread with butter on it to the back of a cat. Since the bread will always land on the buttered side and the cat will always land on its feet when tossed, the two will eventually rotate instead of touching the floor. Thus, you'll have a perpetual motion machine that would power the Jupiter brains of the future.
You got it all wrong, there is nothing stopping their accelaration towards the ground, by our current knowledge the system would reach infinite amount of rotations before touching the ground. Sort of a singularity, our physics just stop working there, and we can't experimentally try what happens, because by our current estimation that process would create infinite energy in a finite time window, thus destroying the whole universe. And no one wants to risk that.
the issue here is while not with a cat its been tried with a shoe and a piece of buttered bread, it turns out that they just separate and each hits the ground as it is wont to do
@@TeoTH80 It's been over-hyped. I think it's an alright movie, and enjoy some of the concepts and rewatching it now and then. But, I also feel like it'd be right at home on a modern version of MST3K. That said, I've never thought more highly of it than I do, so yeah, it is as good as I remember, or sometimes better.
I think if I graphed how much I know about black holes against how much people want to talk to me at a cocktail party, we may end up with some kind of negative undefined region that looks very sad. Fantastic video as always Kyle.
It sometimes annoys me how few people end up watching your videos. Every single week I wait for the new one, and the quality never disappoints. Thanks for doing this, discount Thor!
Okay, you need to acknowledge Isaac Arthur for this! I know you just watched his Black Hole Farming video. But yeah, this is probably going to be *the* end of energy production. There's really nothing quite as passive as this.
Dammit Kyle i was drinking when you said "netflix adaptation of Thor" how dare you bring it that hard so early in the video! lol... Keep up the good work Good Sir :) Love your stuff :)
I have to echo @roadie7250 's sentiment. That said, I don't hold it on too high a pedestal. It's a fun movie with some interesting ideas. A good movie night movie for October, but fine to put back on the shelf for the rest of the year.
This is great, I wrote my senior paper on the idea of extracting energy from rotating black holes last year. My obsession with them goes back a while 😅
Related watching for anyone interested, Issac Aurther, host of Science and Futurism with Issac Aurther made a video set called 'civilaizations at the end of time' where he one of the things he brought up was harvesting energy from black holes iirc.
I'm watching this immediately after coming home from a night on the town and while I dont currently understand what Kyle is saying, I like the way he explains everything. Its currently 4:33 am and all i have to say is I love you Kyle for continuing your series after Nerdist
you could use light to do it so causality is the limit, and i would be more worried about demons and all the gore that would happen... But you can basically use light to get more energy from a black hole than you put in so should cut down some time
@@12345NOU54321 You could modulate the energy pulses to send Yo momma jokes to future people! Imagine that. You get home after work, flick on the light, and suddenly it's 'Yo momma so fat..."
This would be not fun in school at all, In a youtube vid it's fun with all the graphics and jokes, in school it'll be almost exclusively discussed with math and equations🙃
8:24 "graphs are the ultimate proof of anything" everyone else: comes up with all sorts of supporting evidence for their claims me, an intellectual: "look at this graph"
That’s interesting. I would expect a gravitational slingshot to be similar, however with less power output as a trade-off for a smaller scale and less complexity.
Finally! I love your singular videos. I wish you did more of them. I just don't have the time to sit an watch an office hours stream. These videos are much better.
I really enjoy learning about this sort of thing as an adult. As a kid it seemed impossible and so far away. As an adult awakening to my spirituality and a greater use of my mind- this sounds entirely possible if people have the want to do so.
@@neuralmute Event Horizon falls under the category of Cosmic horror. Horror deriving from fear od the unknowable, the spectacle that we are insignificant and there are forces at place with their own agendas and nothing we do will change it. If you want a better example, lovecraftian horror is synonymous with cosmic horror.
@@Shaathurray Oh, I'm aware of Cosmic Horror, and I'm more than familiar with Lovecraft and his works. (I've got a rubbing of his headstone framed and hanging over my bed.) And I agree that Event Horizon fits well into the genre. I simply meant to suggest that this movie is in a class entirely of its own, and whether that's a good or bad thing is one's own opinion. Either way, it leaves a lasting impression! It's hard to do tone on the internet. ;)
Dude. Yes. I've tinkered around with a concept like this before! I just started watching the video but I'm looking forward to the science as always! You've made me a lot smarter than I was and I am forever grateful for that!
I call a theoretical generator taking advantage of the Penrose process, a "Penrose Generator". A basic idea is spacetime paddles, oars that get moved by the ergosphere but are anchored outside of it.
Duuuuude. I've been looking all over youtube to try and find you after you left because science. I had actually gave up on looking for you and assumed that you were no longer on UA-cam. Glad I was just randomly recommend you.
Glad you brought up "kurzgesagt in a nutshell" their video was really good explaining the idea. I'm glad to see the idea getting more love, and seeing a different take on the subject. Question, how long do you think it would take to make a colony using the dark energy of a black hole with our current technology (or your own secret tech)?
Hey! I watched this video yesterday! I guess being an intern in the Facility is totally worth the money I paid. Support Kyle on Patreon, folks! It's worth it!
Oh yeah, I remember when Kurzegesagt made a video on this. Thanks for addressing them at the end of the video Kyle, it's so great to live in a timeline where we have so many educative/scientific content creators, and especially that they're so chill with each other,
@Olli: That sounds like one of Pinky's non-sequiturs. "Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Pinky?" "I think so, Brain, but where are we gonna find a duck and a rubber hose at this time of night?"
You can also get energy from the accretion disk right? I heard that pieces of matter in the disk collide extremely fast and they end up releasing something like 42% of their equivalent mass energy. That’s a lot more efficient than anything we’ve ever made. I think the most we’ve done is convert like 1% of mass to energy with nuclear reactions.
@@BigDaddyWes So how about we use ALL the renewable energy sources, where they make the most sense? There's no reason that one or the other is the "one true way"! Iceland's already generating a huge percentage of their power from geothermal energy because they're an island of volcanoes, while France has gone mostly nuclear. In my corner of the world, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, most of our electricity is generated at a massive hydroelectric plant near Niagara Falls, and we've got a lot of wind farms springing up too. I'm not anti-nuke, I think it's one of the cleanest, safest options we've got, but I also believe in using every clean resource we've got.
I like how you are using a form of backlighting to make your hair not get cropped partly out video keying of your background. Just about as genius as the entertaining turning of the tenis ball ;). I'd of personally pulled the Home Improvement moto and went power drill on that thing :).
Just stumbled across your channel, totally love it! New fan! You know, Star Trek: TNG suggested this possibility back in the 90’s. Romulan Warbirds we’re supposedly powered by an “artificial quantum singularity”… a little black hole. Be great if we could get the engineers to rig something up!
The singularity reactor would explain why no one knew what the Romulans looked like until the 2400’s. Any time a warbird was destroyed the containment around the singularity would fail, and ship would pretty much just implode into it, likely with scuttling charges to make it crumple up to fit.
"There can be more than one thing about things." That's how I justify doing anything at all. Markets are saturated, songs and stories are derivative, and the undiscovered is beyond the reach of all but the very best. Since I'm barely adequate, the world doesn't have room for me in any capacity but a consumer. I still feel like trying though, so I'll make another thing about a thing and privately enjoy the process of its fruitless creation.
I know what you saying, but I cannot call that fruitless. Sometimes your explanation is the one that drills the knowledge into someone's head, either because of your visuals (no matter how crude) your choice of words or either your voice or even because that person was finally receptive to that message and you were the messenger. I still remember someone (I saved his video in my playlists) that pushed my way to see gravity from Newton to Einstein while explaining how gravity is how it is also because on top of the curvature of space, time is also being stretched for that object (everybody says that and I understood that) but for some reason his explanation finally moved my brain to "visualise" everything at once in one picture, instead of seeing: -with my minds eye just the stretch of space and operate with my conceptual mind that time was being stretched now: -both my mind's eye and conceptual mind seeing both at the same time. Looks similar, but for ME, it is a big difference.
9:35 Pop quiz, hotshot: If you're stealing energy from a spinning black hole, wouldn't that eventually cause the spinning black hole to evaporate? If so, how much energy would need to be stolen before that happens?
new head canon: "they're all gonna look gross" being your main worry convinces me that you are ageless and are going to stay at 20 until 2550 Edit: as long as we don't all die
> Contains black hole > draws energy from black hole > makes container able to force black hole to dissipate if it fails > makes black hole batteries > puts black hole batteries in fitness tracker ... > Time dilation sickness
I've been writing a white paper about poltergeist power generation for a while. The basic concept is that you find a haunted house where a ghost is pulling open drawers every night. You install a rack and pinion dynamo power generator to the drawer to extract some power from the ghost pulling the drawer open. You are then extracting power from wherever the ghost get's its power. You scale this up massively until you have a warehouse full of power generating drawers. Either ghosts aren't real, or they violate the law of conservation of energy, or they extract energy via some unknown method from an unknown source.
The idea of even orbiting a black hole at all let alone trying to build a structure around it that regularly lowers something close to the event horizon is an absolutely terrifying prospect. If ANYTHING goes wrong AT ALL there is no escape.
Sometimes I think that when physics "break" is actually when we forget some kind of factor in the formula we use to usually describe it. Usually when we get a force that becomes opposite in a way we did not expect is because there's somewhere a variable that inverts the overall sign. (i.e. we expect some force to never be negative, but we can see an opposite effect and the math expression used to define it is always a positive number. )
Kyle, I love the hair as usual, and this time I have a question. Normally on movies and such, if something gets near a black hole (a star for example) it is desintegrated and absorbed into the black hole in a spiraling motion. I imagine that would be the case if the black hole in question was spinning, but what if it was perfectly still? Would the absorbed matter simply go directly into the black hole from that side instead of creating that sort of halo as it spirals down into the event horizon? Anyway, keep being awesome.
Just finished watching a video that talks about this concept. My huge question mark is how the heck are people supposed to build something strong enough to withstand the gravitational forces, and how do they plan to get close enough to put it in place? Even a Dyson Sphere would be easier to make than a Black Hole Engine.
I was thinking about that too, but it might be fine as long as whatever is entering the ergosphere is loosely attached to an outside structure, like a length of coil, but way more fancy science shit I dont understand involved. That way the mass in the sphere can accelerate and still be retrieved without ripping apart something. But I dont know how scaling would work. Since you need to get the whole damn structure moving at once, or you still get the old rippy problem.
@@gorisenke even with teathers the infinite mass dragging the shell would collapse it and drag whatever was attached inside the gravitational eddy. I, and my feeble mind, see no way of feasibly achieving any kind of structure around a black hole. Even setting up mirrors on angles outside it's perimeter would cause huge problems logistically let alone structurally.
@@billybrainless4007 building a structure around a black hole would be undertaking like never before. But its not exactly difficult in concept. You would put your facilities in a region that can orbit the singularly. But the whole negative energy bit? I have no idea. I used extra science cable as an example but no matter what I dont really see a win. Even using the method explained in the video, where a charge breaks the object in two so one can leave. All that sounds like is us consuming resources to get energy, which is no different than what we are doing now, except that our consumed matter is now completely inaccessible since its literally in the death zone. Basically hum drum I have no fucking idea. 🤣
@@gorisenke the idea isn't to use a massive object at all. It's to catapult EM waves around and reflect them endlessly around the black hole increasing their yield exponentially. That's at least the theory that was explained, but it requires mirrored surfaces that could surround the black hole, much like a Dyson Sphere/Swarm
I recall Kurz did a vid on this, but that's more simplified to try to crunch down the complex physics (even if it does dive into it anyways, along with referring to the use of light instead of mass)... Alas, this and the "Black Hole Bomb" video work well for understanding how one could use a spinning black hole for power.
There's one hard Sci Fi novel, "The Compleat MacAndrew" by Charles Sheffield that uses rotating electrically charged black holes as starship power sources, and it's pretty good, I really recommend it, Kyle, assuming you haven't read it already.
I literally just watched the Kurzgesagt video on this not an hour before seeing this video go out. I love that both of you know that we could do it, but unfortunately we still have to figure out the small pesky issue of being nowhere near a black hole to steal energy from.
Hey Kyle, I love your content, I was wondering, could a nuclear meltdown or reaction happen in nature? Like could some radioactive material get trapped under something that would reflect the protons back at it like from maybe a cave collapse or something? Or are raw nuclear materials not strong enough to produce such a reaction?
10:50 isn’t that kinda what Nidavellir in Avengers:Endgame is designed after,Where Thor gets stormbreaker, (not a black hole but a neutron star,but still), massive rings around it that absorb the energy to power the planet or factory.
I remember something called "The Event" as a TV show, not a film. It was about aliens suing Spanish flu to kill people slowly or something? I can't quite remember but they managed to acquire some infected lungs.
A very interesting video I've just now discovered here. In addition the black hole topic in it reminded me of a similar space related phenomenon I learned about from a science teacher way back in the 7th grade. The phenomenon they spoke of too is a process that some planets gravitational pull can have on objects caught in them including asteroids, debris from black holes & other sources in a slow moving way that causes things to become a rotating ring of ice & rock & especially if there is enough water & earthly dust that's captured as well. I forget the proper name for the process too, but I always thought it was cool to learn about it.
Couple of questions; Would you age at a normal rate if you were sat at the edge of the Ergosphere? How would matter entering or placed near an Ergosphere be effected by Entropy?
Is this somehow connected to hawking radiation? I've never understood how a black hole could lose mass from a particle entering it and now I'm learning it can lose energy as well.
Hawking radiation as far as I understand it isn't exactly a particle entering as much as it is eating halfsies. Particles jump in and out of existence, supposedly, and since the universe is all about balance, for every tiny particle that pops into existence, there is an anti particle that also appears to eradicate it. Hawking radiation is when this spontaneous event happens at the edge of the event horizon, and sometimes the anti particle appears within said event horizon, and falls into the hole, while the particle just happily lives, thus the black hole lost a bit of mass. What I dont understand is how that happens, and mathematically its sound, but also black holes don't shrink. What's that about.
@@gorisenke I'm in the same boat. I understand that something's got to lose mass to account for the new particle, but it's not as if there's a universe police who take away mass from the black hole to maintain the balance.
@@cameron9830 on the bright side. We are tiny gods if we or anyone else in humanity can fully understand black holes. Things are awesome, terrifying, and literally reality breaking.
Hey Kyle! I wasn't sure where to ask this, but I thought I'd ask it here. My cat often comes to my aid when I'm in an emotional crisis and although I know it's based off the scent of hormones, I was more specifically wondering WHAT hormones they are smelling that tells them I need help. I figured if anyone could explain it in a way I'd understand it would be you ☺️ keep up the great content! Can't wait to see what you create next ☺️
I love how both of my favorite UA-cam channels made episodes about how to steal energy from a blackhole First favorite, Kyle Hill Second favorite, Kurzgesagt
*Thanks for watching!* Get your tennis ball and your honey and get sciencin'
Hey Kyle, your content is brings me back to the joy of my elementary bill nye days.
Do you have plans to cover String theory ? I think it would be a great video.
Would it be possible to extract usable amounts of energy from incoming gravitational waves? Like, from random stuff passing by us?
We can harness nuclear energy now, and yet, ppl are to afraid of its power, so much that its almost useless.
I cant imagine what would happen if we could make "black hole power plant" like structure on Earth, or we make artificial black hole in/near Solar System.
So, more u educate ppl about black holes, chances are lower that we will make something like this, because ppl will be more aware of danger.
Your thumbnail look like mangekyou sharingan it's cool
The “brought it back around” call out got me… not going to lie.
“Honey pack up the kids, Netflix-Adaptation Thor is playing with tennis balls in honey in the park again”
Netflix has the show ragnorock. Kyle is now Rose Art Thor
@UCUNntcmf3DTJV8e99pMY5uw: _Apis mellifera_ Roman shower, please.
You comment sounds like the title of an unneeded sequel and the weirdest tagline ever
@@sdfkjgh I'm sorry, my comment was targetted at the original commenter
@@chubbyblackboi such a good show too
Kyle: "Not like that movie that isn't as good as you remember."
Me: "And so I took that personally."
I'm just gonna assume that Kyle means Event Horizon is better than we all remember.
@@reichstein011 same here
I came here with the intent of expressing a similar sentiment
I saw it in the theater as an 8th grader. "Intense" doesn't begin to cover it.
I’m glad others feel this way. I was so ready to be the only angry asshole in the comments.
I laughed at the intro, raced over to show my girlfriend and she said “I don’t get it”
I asked, “Don’t you think he looks like a discount Chris Hemsworth?”
“No, to me he looks like a buff Shia LaBeouf.”
Shia LaBeoufer, then?
It partially depends on how he does his hair. He's only particularly Thorish when has his hair not tied back.
Beouf
HE DOES
You're talking about actual cannibal Shia LeBouf?
9:35 this is what Cooper did to push Brand out of the blackhole in Interstellar. I get it now. Thanks Netflix Thor!
Thank you.came to see this.
Don't forget about TARS
@@ImieNazwiskoOK Never forget TARS.
An alternative to this would be to strap a slice of bread with butter on it to the back of a cat. Since the bread will always land on the buttered side and the cat will always land on its feet when tossed, the two will eventually rotate instead of touching the floor. Thus, you'll have a perpetual motion machine that would power the Jupiter brains of the future.
Quick give this man unlimited funding and a Blue Origin rocket !?!
Or putting a shoe on the top of a cat because it always lands bottom down
I'm pretty sure the two forces would destroy any strap at some point
You got it all wrong, there is nothing stopping their accelaration towards the ground, by our current knowledge the system would reach infinite amount of rotations before touching the ground. Sort of a singularity, our physics just stop working there, and we can't experimentally try what happens, because by our current estimation that process would create infinite energy in a finite time window, thus destroying the whole universe. And no one wants to risk that.
the issue here is while not with a cat its been tried with a shoe and a piece of buttered bread, it turns out that they just separate and each hits the ground as it is wont to do
Kyle: *talks about black holes and stealing energy from one*
Kurzgesagt: 👀
Didn't Kurtzgesagt already do a video on this topic a couple of years ago?
@@Alexus00712 recommend watching the entire video before commenting mate
12:22 is the part Crusader is referencing.
@@Alexus00712 yes, on black bombs ( simply, black hole reactors )
@@crusader8102 I did, I just thought he was referring to the one Kurtzgesagt uploaded most recently
Event Horizon definitely is as good as I remember it. Gloves are off, come fight me netflix Thor!
I genuinely don't know why people gave it such a hard time, it was very enjoyable, albeit not a oscar level film.
dont fight him, you'll get hammered. It wont necessarily be a magic hammer, but it will be a hammer of some description!
@@TeoTH80 It's been over-hyped. I think it's an alright movie, and enjoy some of the concepts and rewatching it now and then. But, I also feel like it'd be right at home on a modern version of MST3K. That said, I've never thought more highly of it than I do, so yeah, it is as good as I remember, or sometimes better.
I think if I graphed how much I know about black holes against how much people want to talk to me at a cocktail party, we may end up with some kind of negative undefined region that looks very sad.
Fantastic video as always Kyle.
Also, something something software developer something something NodeJS dependencies.
It sometimes annoys me how few people end up watching your videos. Every single week I wait for the new one, and the quality never disappoints. Thanks for doing this, discount Thor!
Can we get Kyle as the next MCU villain?
He just has to act natural.
I always said the MCU should cast Kyle as Modi Thorson and since the 1610 version is a villain...
"No! It can't be!"
"Yes! It is I! You, the bootleg edition!!"
*One of Kyle's lines from the next Thor film, probably*
Yaaassss spinning black hole, yassss, strut that primrose diagram.
I Laughed so hard at tis Part, qween xD
C’mon frame drag, let’s get SPINNING okurrr
Pls Twitter retards don't go cancel crazy. That was funny!
Pennywise diaphragm?
The snapping was the cherry on top
Okay, you need to acknowledge Isaac Arthur for this! I know you just watched his Black Hole Farming video. But yeah, this is probably going to be *the* end of energy production. There's really nothing quite as passive as this.
The one and only Elmer Fudd of sci-fi!
Ain’t just Isaac Arthur that discussed the pentode process/super radiant scattering.
Dammit Kyle i was drinking when you said "netflix adaptation of Thor" how dare you bring it that hard so early in the video! lol... Keep up the good work Good Sir :) Love your stuff :)
My favorite part of that moment was when I thought he was being serious. I was a little skeptical... and then it hit me. lol
You should know by now not to drink anything during the first 30 seconds of any Kyle Hill video!
"Frame Dragging"
Yeah I had that issue too, turns out my CRT was just busted, problem fixed itself once I upgraded to a 1080p monitor
I love how much effort he puts into making his videos geekier and his jokes nerdier every time 😂
"Now in everyday life you don't notice this underlying structure"
Ahem... Gravity
Prosperous Universe game looks like my favorite part of Eve Online: day-trading in Jita!
Hey man I'm just here doubling your space monies, definitely not a scam...
Ah, a true follower of the spreadsheet I see
Kyle is genuinely funny, man has me cracking up so hard.
I thought he started the main topic already, but it was a sponsor. Sneak 100
Event Horizon is exactly as good as I remember it sir!
Personally I feel it gets a little better every time I watch it.
I have to echo @roadie7250 's sentiment. That said, I don't hold it on too high a pedestal. It's a fun movie with some interesting ideas. A good movie night movie for October, but fine to put back on the shelf for the rest of the year.
This is great, I wrote my senior paper on the idea of extracting energy from rotating black holes last year. My obsession with them goes back a while 😅
Man, using black holes for gravity assist is going to be the future of interstellar space travel.
"Graphs are the ultimate proof of anything!"
-Kyle Hill, the Netflix Adaptation Thor and award winning science communicator
Related watching for anyone interested, Issac Aurther, host of Science and Futurism with Issac Aurther made a video set called 'civilaizations at the end of time' where he one of the things he brought up was harvesting energy from black holes iirc.
Hey man, I just realized..... your ship stopped near a black hole without any momentum canceled? What technology are you using?
@asdrubale bisanzio ahh ok makes sense
I wouldn't ask those kind of questions, "Kevin" may show up at your doorstep to assimilate.... errr, question you.
@@captainspaulding5963 that's ok. The laboratory isn't the only place with high powered plasma beam weapons
I'm watching this immediately after coming home from a night on the town and while I dont currently understand what Kyle is saying, I like the way he explains everything.
Its currently 4:33 am and all i have to say is I love you Kyle for continuing your series after Nerdist
I greatly appreciate your dedication to knowledge, even when you don't have the capacity to absorb it. That's awesome.
Judging by the quality of content, production and the years you have been on UA-cam, you deserve 10x the subscribers you got.
Question... Wouldn't the energy that we capture arrive like "too late " to be useful because of time dilation?
Eh, just start the machine a couple centuries before you actually need it, it’ll be there eventually
you could use light to do it so causality is the limit, and i would be more worried about demons and all the gore that would happen... But you can basically use light to get more energy from a black hole than you put in so should cut down some time
@@12345NOU54321 You could modulate the energy pulses to send Yo momma jokes to future people!
Imagine that. You get home after work, flick on the light, and suddenly it's 'Yo momma so fat..."
If only teachers taught like this back in my days in Highschool.
13 Minutes per lesson?
@@prudentibus And with useful information, i learn more watching paint drying on a wall than being in school for 30 years
@@jessecardenas6971 why were you in school for 30 years
@@austinthenoob I think he means it seemed like 30 years and to be fair some classes do took time is relative to a all new level
This would be not fun in school at all, In a youtube vid it's fun with all the graphics and jokes, in school it'll be almost exclusively discussed with math and equations🙃
I love Kyle so much. I remember watching because science on tv everyday! One of my favorite shows of all time!!!
"Spinning black hole"
* shows Schwarzschild black hole in background *
lmao
8:24 "graphs are the ultimate proof of anything"
everyone else: comes up with all sorts of supporting evidence for their claims
me, an intellectual: "look at this graph"
That’s interesting. I would expect a gravitational slingshot to be similar, however with less power output as a trade-off for a smaller scale and less complexity.
Finally! I love your singular videos. I wish you did more of them. I just don't have the time to sit an watch an office hours stream. These videos are much better.
I really enjoy learning about this sort of thing as an adult. As a kid it seemed impossible and so far away. As an adult awakening to my spirituality and a greater use of my mind- this sounds entirely possible if people have the want to do so.
Woah woah woah. Event Horizon is still one of the best films of its genre.
I sort of thought Event Horizon was the *only* film of its exact genre... There's space horror, and then there's Event Horizon.
@@neuralmute Event Horizon falls under the category of Cosmic horror. Horror deriving from fear od the unknowable, the spectacle that we are insignificant and there are forces at place with their own agendas and nothing we do will change it.
If you want a better example, lovecraftian horror is synonymous with cosmic horror.
@@Shaathurray Oh, I'm aware of Cosmic Horror, and I'm more than familiar with Lovecraft and his works. (I've got a rubbing of his headstone framed and hanging over my bed.) And I agree that Event Horizon fits well into the genre. I simply meant to suggest that this movie is in a class entirely of its own, and whether that's a good or bad thing is one's own opinion. Either way, it leaves a lasting impression!
It's hard to do tone on the internet. ;)
Dude. Yes. I've tinkered around with a concept like this before! I just started watching the video but I'm looking forward to the science as always! You've made me a lot smarter than I was and I am forever grateful for that!
I call a theoretical generator taking advantage of the Penrose process, a "Penrose Generator". A basic idea is spacetime paddles, oars that get moved by the ergosphere but are anchored outside of it.
9:00 I'm disappointed that there was no "Matthew McConaughey - Interstellar - Detaching into the Black Hole" reference.
Event horizon not being as good as I remember hit me weird. You right though, you right
Seriously... No matter how much I love Sam Neill, Lawrence Fishburne, and the entire concept, somehow I only seem to remember the first time I saw it.
@@joshDammmit I concur.
@@joshDammmit I only saw it for the first time last year and thought it was awesome.
13:13 Kyle hill explains how to escape a black hole
I really like the way that your making these videos. Funny, but informative 👍 Great video.
Duuuuude. I've been looking all over youtube to try and find you after you left because science. I had actually gave up on looking for you and assumed that you were no longer on UA-cam. Glad I was just randomly recommend you.
Glad you brought up "kurzgesagt in a nutshell" their video was really good explaining the idea. I'm glad to see the idea getting more love, and seeing a different take on the subject. Question, how long do you think it would take to make a colony using the dark energy of a black hole with our current technology (or your own secret tech)?
Bold of you to assume that he doesn’t already have a black hole powered colony.
8:14 so I would actually OWE the universe energy?! Yeesh that’s rough.
Kyle just described how the Romulans power their ships via forced quantum singularity.
Just hope the Tal Shiar haven’t gotten wind of him.
The last thing Kyle needs is a D'Deridex Warbird in his facility
For a super anti-villain, you sure have a lot of normal everyday problems, quirks and household items.
More Kyle yay! And glad to see you're having fun with your new toy I mean the drone 😜. It is pretty sweet tho
I really love how the Spacetime is shown in a 3D model that is way better then the 2D models out there
This game is like Ogame exactly the same from we play it at uni at 04 or 06 i dont remember
Hahahah yea yea 06 .... It was spent so much time at this game
Amazing game does it still exist?
Dam we re getting old
That little "tennis ball and honey" bit had the most "Bill Nye Energy" of anything I've seen on this channel.
My mind is blown. Now I know stuff that I never actually needed to know!
I really dig these new effects in your videos Kyle!
Hey! I watched this video yesterday! I guess being an intern in the Facility is totally worth the money I paid.
Support Kyle on Patreon, folks! It's worth it!
Oh yeah, I remember when Kurzegesagt made a video on this.
Thanks for addressing them at the end of the video Kyle, it's so great to live in a timeline where we have so many educative/scientific content creators, and especially that they're so chill with each other,
What do I do, if I end up at a party without a bowl of honey and a tennisball?
(Also nice drones)
@Olli: That sounds like one of Pinky's non-sequiturs.
"Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Pinky?"
"I think so, Brain, but where are we gonna find a duck and a rubber hose at this time of night?"
Leave immediately - it's not ACTUALLY a party if there aren't tennis balls and/or bowls of honey readily available.
1:53 you can tape a shoe to a cats back then drop it from a height that will make a black hole
When you snorted about Drag Space-time I lost it.
You can also get energy from the accretion disk right? I heard that pieces of matter in the disk collide extremely fast and they end up releasing something like 42% of their equivalent mass energy. That’s a lot more efficient than anything we’ve ever made. I think the most we’ve done is convert like 1% of mass to energy with nuclear reactions.
Yassss drag that space time xD
Drag race but in space?
Kyle evolving like a Pokemon. I remember skinny Kyle from back in the day.
That would be cool, but we should get this solar thing truly global first
*Nuclear
That would take up WAY too much space. Fission or fusion is a much more realistc option.
@@BigDaddyWes So how about we use ALL the renewable energy sources, where they make the most sense? There's no reason that one or the other is the "one true way"! Iceland's already generating a huge percentage of their power from geothermal energy because they're an island of volcanoes, while France has gone mostly nuclear. In my corner of the world, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, most of our electricity is generated at a massive hydroelectric plant near Niagara Falls, and we've got a lot of wind farms springing up too. I'm not anti-nuke, I think it's one of the cleanest, safest options we've got, but I also believe in using every clean resource we've got.
I like how you are using a form of backlighting to make your hair not get cropped partly out video keying of your background. Just about as genius as the entertaining turning of the tenis ball ;). I'd of personally pulled the Home Improvement moto and went power drill on that thing :).
I would love to see an episode about the Spin from JoJo
Just stumbled across your channel, totally love it! New fan! You know, Star Trek: TNG suggested this possibility back in the 90’s. Romulan Warbirds we’re supposedly powered by an “artificial quantum singularity”… a little black hole. Be great if we could get the engineers to rig something up!
The singularity reactor would explain why no one knew what the Romulans looked like until the 2400’s. Any time a warbird was destroyed the containment around the singularity would fail, and ship would pretty much just implode into it, likely with scuttling charges to make it crumple up to fit.
"There can be more than one thing about things."
That's how I justify doing anything at all. Markets are saturated, songs and stories are derivative, and the undiscovered is beyond the reach of all but the very best. Since I'm barely adequate, the world doesn't have room for me in any capacity but a consumer. I still feel like trying though, so I'll make another thing about a thing and privately enjoy the process of its fruitless creation.
I know what you saying, but I cannot call that fruitless. Sometimes your explanation is the one that drills the knowledge into someone's head, either because of your visuals (no matter how crude) your choice of words or either your voice or even because that person was finally receptive to that message and you were the messenger. I still remember someone (I saved his video in my playlists) that pushed my way to see gravity from Newton to Einstein while explaining how gravity is how it is also because on top of the curvature of space, time is also being stretched for that object (everybody says that and I understood that) but for some reason his explanation finally moved my brain to "visualise" everything at once in one picture, instead of seeing:
-with my minds eye just the stretch of space and operate with my conceptual mind that time was being stretched
now:
-both my mind's eye and conceptual mind seeing both at the same time.
Looks similar, but for ME, it is a big difference.
It's like happy nihilism - "none of this actually matters, and isn't it wonderful?!" 😅
9:35 Pop quiz, hotshot: If you're stealing energy from a spinning black hole, wouldn't that eventually cause the spinning black hole to evaporate? If so, how much energy would need to be stolen before that happens?
... no. I pass it on to the next person.
new head canon: "they're all gonna look gross" being your main worry convinces me that you are ageless and are going to stay at 20 until 2550
Edit: as long as we don't all die
> Contains black hole
> draws energy from black hole
> makes container able to force black hole to dissipate if it fails
> makes black hole batteries
> puts black hole batteries in fitness tracker
...
> Time dilation sickness
I've been writing a white paper about poltergeist power generation for a while. The basic concept is that you find a haunted house where a ghost is pulling open drawers every night. You install a rack and pinion dynamo power generator to the drawer to extract some power from the ghost pulling the drawer open. You are then extracting power from wherever the ghost get's its power. You scale this up massively until you have a warehouse full of power generating drawers. Either ghosts aren't real, or they violate the law of conservation of energy, or they extract energy via some unknown method from an unknown source.
The idea of even orbiting a black hole at all let alone trying to build a structure around it that regularly lowers something close to the event horizon is an absolutely terrifying prospect. If ANYTHING goes wrong AT ALL there is no escape.
Saw the Kurzgesagt video. I feel the Honey demonstration you showed added something valuable to help us all understand how the process works.
I sometimes wonder and think about what would happen if you did a lot of these experiments in zero gravity
Awesome vid bro!
Explained one of the most difficult things I've ever learned in such a simple way. You deserve a price!
That price would be approximately tree fiddy
1:15 "New Zilund". Nice touch.
0:03 - the one time Netflix adaptation is actually better
Sometimes I think that when physics "break" is actually when we forget some kind of factor in the formula we use to usually describe it.
Usually when we get a force that becomes opposite in a way we did not expect is because there's somewhere a variable that inverts the overall sign. (i.e. we expect some force to never be negative, but we can see an opposite effect and the math expression used to define it is always a positive number. )
Kyle, I love the hair as usual, and this time I have a question.
Normally on movies and such, if something gets near a black hole (a star for example) it is desintegrated and absorbed into the black hole in a spiraling motion. I imagine that would be the case if the black hole in question was spinning, but what if it was perfectly still?
Would the absorbed matter simply go directly into the black hole from that side instead of creating that sort of halo as it spirals down into the event horizon?
Anyway, keep being awesome.
3:31 I saw it in theaters and I can honestly say it’s better with age. Hated it originally, now I have a sort of respect for it.
Not only is Kyle a Neflix-Adaptation Thor, but he's ALSO a midwestern Yuri Lowenthal voice-double.
Just finished watching a video that talks about this concept. My huge question mark is how the heck are people supposed to build something strong enough to withstand the gravitational forces, and how do they plan to get close enough to put it in place?
Even a Dyson Sphere would be easier to make than a Black Hole Engine.
I was thinking about that too, but it might be fine as long as whatever is entering the ergosphere is loosely attached to an outside structure, like a length of coil, but way more fancy science shit I dont understand involved. That way the mass in the sphere can accelerate and still be retrieved without ripping apart something. But I dont know how scaling would work. Since you need to get the whole damn structure moving at once, or you still get the old rippy problem.
@@gorisenke even with teathers the infinite mass dragging the shell would collapse it and drag whatever was attached inside the gravitational eddy. I, and my feeble mind, see no way of feasibly achieving any kind of structure around a black hole. Even setting up mirrors on angles outside it's perimeter would cause huge problems logistically let alone structurally.
@@billybrainless4007 building a structure around a black hole would be undertaking like never before. But its not exactly difficult in concept. You would put your facilities in a region that can orbit the singularly. But the whole negative energy bit? I have no idea. I used extra science cable as an example but no matter what I dont really see a win. Even using the method explained in the video, where a charge breaks the object in two so one can leave. All that sounds like is us consuming resources to get energy, which is no different than what we are doing now, except that our consumed matter is now completely inaccessible since its literally in the death zone.
Basically hum drum I have no fucking idea. 🤣
@@gorisenke the idea isn't to use a massive object at all. It's to catapult EM waves around and reflect them endlessly around the black hole increasing their yield exponentially. That's at least the theory that was explained, but it requires mirrored surfaces that could surround the black hole, much like a Dyson Sphere/Swarm
I recall Kurz did a vid on this, but that's more simplified to try to crunch down the complex physics (even if it does dive into it anyways, along with referring to the use of light instead of mass)... Alas, this and the "Black Hole Bomb" video work well for understanding how one could use a spinning black hole for power.
That animation of spacetime is incredibly hypnotic.
There's one hard Sci Fi novel, "The Compleat MacAndrew" by Charles Sheffield that uses rotating electrically charged black holes as starship power sources, and it's pretty good, I really recommend it, Kyle, assuming you haven't read it already.
I literally just watched the Kurzgesagt video on this not an hour before seeing this video go out. I love that both of you know that we could do it, but unfortunately we still have to figure out the small pesky issue of being nowhere near a black hole to steal energy from.
Hey Kyle, I love your content, I was wondering, could a nuclear meltdown or reaction happen in nature? Like could some radioactive material get trapped under something that would reflect the protons back at it like from maybe a cave collapse or something? Or are raw nuclear materials not strong enough to produce such a reaction?
What I like about people such as Kyle is that I feel like I'm watching classic Discovery channel
thanks for having the ad IMMEDIATELY, ik that sounds like sarcasm but i mean it, i'd rather have it immediately than half way into the video
9:35 we just got done bamboozled into heisting a blackhole. By our very own discount Thor.
The drone shots are wildly dorky, I love it!
10:50 isn’t that kinda what Nidavellir in Avengers:Endgame is designed after,Where Thor gets stormbreaker, (not a black hole but a neutron star,but still), massive rings around it that absorb the energy to power the planet or factory.
Hey, Netflix Thor, math us if its possible to have mass and use frame dragging to drag you down stream faster than light
To an outside observer you would be moving faster but according to space time you are actually only moving as fast as your ship is pushing
I remember something called "The Event" as a TV show, not a film. It was about aliens suing Spanish flu to kill people slowly or something? I can't quite remember but they managed to acquire some infected lungs.
A very interesting video I've just now discovered here. In addition the black hole topic in it reminded me of a similar space related phenomenon I learned about from a science teacher way back in the 7th grade. The phenomenon they spoke of too is a process that some planets gravitational pull can have on objects caught in them including asteroids, debris from black holes & other sources in a slow moving way that causes things to become a rotating ring of ice & rock & especially if there is enough water & earthly dust that's captured as well. I forget the proper name for the process too, but I always thought it was cool to learn about it.
Couple of questions;
Would you age at a normal rate if you were sat at the edge of the Ergosphere?
How would matter entering or placed near an Ergosphere be effected by Entropy?
Is this somehow connected to hawking radiation? I've never understood how a black hole could lose mass from a particle entering it and now I'm learning it can lose energy as well.
Hawking radiation as far as I understand it isn't exactly a particle entering as much as it is eating halfsies. Particles jump in and out of existence, supposedly, and since the universe is all about balance, for every tiny particle that pops into existence, there is an anti particle that also appears to eradicate it.
Hawking radiation is when this spontaneous event happens at the edge of the event horizon, and sometimes the anti particle appears within said event horizon, and falls into the hole, while the particle just happily lives, thus the black hole lost a bit of mass. What I dont understand is how that happens, and mathematically its sound, but also black holes don't shrink. What's that about.
@@gorisenke I'm in the same boat. I understand that something's got to lose mass to account for the new particle, but it's not as if there's a universe police who take away mass from the black hole to maintain the balance.
@@cameron9830 on the bright side. We are tiny gods if we or anyone else in humanity can fully understand black holes. Things are awesome, terrifying, and literally reality breaking.
Hey Kyle! I wasn't sure where to ask this, but I thought I'd ask it here. My cat often comes to my aid when I'm in an emotional crisis and although I know it's based off the scent of hormones, I was more specifically wondering WHAT hormones they are smelling that tells them I need help. I figured if anyone could explain it in a way I'd understand it would be you ☺️ keep up the great content! Can't wait to see what you create next ☺️
I love how both of my favorite UA-cam channels made episodes about how to steal energy from a blackhole
First favorite, Kyle Hill
Second favorite, Kurzgesagt
Its like a black hole slingshot where the black hole is the mechanism that pulls the material and flinging it/ part of it away.