{"id":91717,"date":"2019-06-06T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships"},"modified":"2019-06-07T03:52:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T10:52:34","slug":"black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships","title":{"rendered":"Black Hole Drive Could Power Future Starships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What would happen if humans could deliberately create a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/category\/black-holes\/\">blackhole<\/a>? Well, for starters we might just unlock the ultimate energy source to create the ultimate spacecraft engine \u2014 a potential \u201cblack hole-drive\u201d \u2014 to propel ships to the stars.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out black holes are not black at all; they give off \u201cHawking radiation\u201d that causes them to lose energy (and therefore mass) over time. For large black holes, the amount of radiation produced is miniscule, but very small black holes rapidly turn their mass into a huge amount of energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/45571\/black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/45571\/black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/45571\/black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/45571\/black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/45571\/black-hole-drive-could-power-future-starships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would happen if humans could deliberately create a blackhole? Well, for starters we might just unlock the ultimate energy source to create the ultimate spacecraft engine \u2014 a potential \u201cblack hole-drive\u201d \u2014 to propel ships to the stars. It turns out black holes are not black at all; they give off \u201cHawking radiation\u201d that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91717","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91732,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91717\/revisions\/91732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}