{"id":18871,"date":"2015-10-29T00:47:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T07:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/warp-factor-11-ships-powered-by-black-holes-to-outpace-enterprise-say-scientists"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:28:16","slug":"warp-factor-11-ships-powered-by-black-holes-to-outpace-enterprise-say-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/warp-factor-11-ships-powered-by-black-holes-to-outpace-enterprise-say-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Warp Factor 11 \u2014 ships powered by BLACK HOLES to \u201coutpace Enterprise\u201d, say scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/video\/inside-black-hole-150217542.html?format=embed&player_autoplay=false\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The novel its a bit older, but it\u2018s an incredible vision!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When Star Trek\u2019s Scotty warns the Captain that the engines can\u2019t \u201ctake it\u201d, he might just be best off switching fuel \u2014 a new book claims that humanity could reach the stars using vast spacecraft harnessing the energy of black holes with the power to \u201ceat planets\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Inside would be an artificial black hole \u2014 created by spheres of generators firing \u201cgravitons\u201d- and, claims author Dr Roger Hoskins, Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, would curve space-time \u2014 and would be \u201cfaster than anti matter drives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Captain Kirk would be jealous of the speeds offered by a black hole powered craft \u2014 which displaces or curves space time, like a warp drive, thus appearing to go faster than light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/warp-factor-eleven---spaceships-powered-by-black-holes-to-%25E2%2580%259Coutspeed-enterprise%25E2%2580%259D--say-scientists-111756910.html#d5NAxg9\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novel its a bit older, but it\u2018s an incredible vision! When Star Trek\u2019s Scotty warns the Captain that the engines can\u2019t \u201ctake it\u201d, he might just be best off switching fuel \u2014 a new book claims that humanity could reach the stars using vast spacecraft harnessing the energy of black holes with the power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1497,1506,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-energy","category-food","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63838,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18871\/revisions\/63838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}