00:00 Black holes are some of the most mysterious and powerful forces in the universe.
00:07 But what if that power could be harnessed?
00:09 That's exactly what researchers from Tianjin University in China are now proposing, suggesting
00:14 that the future of energy could come from tiny black holes.
00:17 I know what you're thinking, anything that crosses a black hole's event horizon can
00:20 never come out again.
00:21 And that's true.
00:22 However, their new theory doesn't deal with what's inside the black hole, but rather what's
00:26 directly around it.
00:27 The strongest gravitational concentrations we know of.
00:30 This theory also deals with primordial black holes, or ones that are not supermassive and
00:34 tens of billions of times the size of our sun, but rather tiny, even subatomic.
00:39 Those are believed to have formed from excess primordial plasma in the moment shortly after
00:43 the Big Bang.
00:44 The only problem is we're not sure they even exist.
00:46 If they do, it's conceivable we could use a black hole's own gravity to produce electricity
00:51 by converting its non-electric gravitational energy into electrical power, essentially
00:56 turning it into a battery.
00:57 And they add it could be re-upped with charged particles, even those released as a byproduct
01:02 of radioactive decay.
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