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The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Cosmology & astrophysics

What it is

Kurzgesagt explains the black hole bomb and how far-future civilizations might extract energy from spinning black holes, including Dyson-sphere-style ideas.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Linked as a nice summary of how civilizations could harvest black hole energy.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “Kurzgesagt had some nice summaries of”

    Kurzgesagt on black holes as homes for civilizations.

    Malic, 2018-06 · Recommendation · in “What life could be like for civilizations 1 trillion years from now”

  2. “I also watched this in the past, which has some fun ideas”

    Fun ideas about harvesting black hole energy with mirrors.

    kadoban, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “What if Planet 9 is a Primordial Black Hole? (2019)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: black holes, superradiance, far future, kurzgesagt, dyson sphere

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