Monday, April 24, 2006

Black Holes the Most Efficient Engine in the Universe

This is a very interesting article about black holes.

"If you could make a car engine that was as efficient as one of these black holes, you could get about a billion miles out of a gallon of gas," said study team leader Steve Allen of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University. "In anyone's book, that would be pretty green."

I just had a Sci-Fi thought and came up with a small black hole surrounded by a massive engine at the heart of a galaxy spanning Empire. The people of the Empire are connected to the gigantic engine in a massive honeycomb. It would be kind of like a huge Dyson Sphere from this Next Generation episode.

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