Could Black Holes Made of Light Power Our Spaceships?

What exactly would it take to create our very own Swartzchild Kugelblitz?

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Kugelblitz! Powering a Starship With a Black Hole
"Interstellar flight certainly ranks among the most daunting challenges ever postulated by human civilization. The distances to even the closest stars are so stupendous that constructing even a scale model of interstellar distance is impractical. For instance, if on such a model the separation of the Earth and sun is 1 inch (2.5 centimeters), the nearest star to our solar system (Proxima Centauri) would be 4.3 miles (6.9 kilometers) away!"

Kugelblitz Black Holes: Lasers & Doom
"A kugelblitz black hole could theoretically be created by aiming lasers vastly more powerful than anything we have today at a single point. Logically, one could assume that turning off the lasers would ‘turn off’ the black hole? Well, that’s not quite right"

What is a Dyson sphere?
"In recent years, astronomers explored that possibility with a bizarre star, known to astronomers as KIC 8462852 – more popularly called Tabby’s Star for its discoverer Tabetha Boyajian. This star’s strange light was originally thought to indicate a possible Dyson sphere. That idea has been discarded, but, in 2018, other possibilities emerged, such as that of using the Gaia mission to search for Dyson spheres."
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[VaibhavSnehi]

Seeker should be renamed to "More Research is Needed Channel" !!

[Moepowerplant]

"efficient in our ridiculousness"

How poetic.

[astrophonix]

Interesting that it can achieve 72% lightspeed, as that's what I call the break-even point. A ship traveling at 72% c would have a gamma of 1.4, or a dilation factor of 40%, meaning you could coast 10 light years in 14 years earthtime, but only 10 years shiptime would pass, so it's as good as traveling at lightspeed in terms of the astronaut's travel duration time.

[EugeneKhutoryansky]

And how do you plan to get the black hole to accelerate with the spaceship?

[TheMadTube]

The Romulans did that in their ships. Ask them how that worked out.

[Sean_Lightning_OBrien]

Fun fact:
In E = mc^2, 'c' is not the speed of light, but is actually the speed of causality (hence 'c' for causality and not 'l' for light). Light and causality just happen to have the same speed.

[kds]

Oh, oh, oh, two words Event Horizon - a fantastic space horror movie. Gravity drive?

[TheKasimkage]

I once heard someone suggest a possible reason for the Fermi Paradox being that once a civilisation gets advanced enough, it screws around with a technology it doesn’t quite understand and black holes itself. I feel like this is the technology is how we black hole ourselves.

It was Burnie Burns on Episode 188 of the Rooster Teeth podcast.

[devvratbani]

A kugelblitz???? Power a shot ship made of metal. Not gonna happen.


Even empire doesn't have that technology yet.

[dotter]

As a curiosity, in ST:TNG, this is a reasonable description of a Romulin warp core. (I merely report it.) Supposedly, it has no waste output and thus does not interfere with their cloaking system, as an antimatter reactor would.

[KaeptnKeks]

You really nailed the pronounciation of Kugelblitz. Good Job!

[_WaitingInTheSky_]

I'm German and I'm confused by ball lightning 😕🤣

[cthulhuhasrisen]

I saw event horizon, it doesn't end well. Better pass on the black hole drive.

[Master_Therion]

Can a black hole spaceship turn around? Because, I heard once you go black you never go back.

[DocGadget]

How to make a TARDIS

1. Pick an exterior design
2. Make it bigger on the inside
2. Rip a star a from its orbit that’s on the verge of becoming a black hole
3. Travel through space and time

[Zithorius]

3 things

Could we find evidence of alien space travel by tracking gamma radiation spat out by "NOtHinG" in the distance, eerily pointed in strangely linear beams?

Can we skip fusion reactors and use a hawking rad dyson sphere on earth to power our cities instead?

and

Is it actually hot if it's the size of a proton?

[jonnysrods]

I have seen Ball Lightning twice. Both times in Renton WA area, after dark. Both about the size of a basketball or medicine ball. Both of them about the same distance from the ground, maybe 80 to 150 feet up. Both of them followed the contour of the land. Both about the same color I cant describe... Both moved very fast, like really really fast! in view then out of view in a flash of a moment. if you blinked you would miss it. One moved from west to East, the other from North to South.
These sightings were about 2 years apart, Winter of 1979 and Fall of 1980.

[FallenPie]

I'm 90% sure this is the great filter

[adamtak]

This is super cool but scary at the same time.

[samisadat]

First time I came to know about it in a science fiction book. Now I know it's possible theoretically. Wow!