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* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' alludes to this with the character Sigma, who received [[GravityMaster gravity-based superpowers]] after a FreakLabAccident exposed him to the raw force of a miniature black hole. Among his in-game abilities is "Accretion", a defensive ability where he creates [[UnrealisticBlackHole a small black hole in the palm of his hand]] that not only absorbs and nullifies enemy fire, but converts it into "shields" to keep him sturdy.
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* The Ur-Example is the asymptotic drives in ''Literature/ImperialEarth'' by Creator/ArthurCClarke, in which the space drive of the day contains a tiny black hole (referred to as a "Node") into which matter is fed. The resulting energy release is used to drive the spaceship. As a result of this process, the black hole gradually increases in mass, and eventually has to be replaced. What happens to the "used" black holes is never explained.
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* The Ur-Example is the asymptotic drives in "Literature/ImperialEarth" by "Creator/ArthurCClarke", in which the space drive of the day contains a tiny black hole (referred to as a 'Node') into which matter is fed. The resulting energy release is used to drive the spaceship. As a result of this process, the black hole gradually increases in mass, and eventually has to be replaced. What happens to the 'used' black holes is never explained.
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* The Ur-Example is the asymptotic drives in "Literature/ImperialEarth" ''Literature/ImperialEarth'' by "Creator/ArthurCClarke", Creator/ArthurCClarke, in which the space drive of the day contains a tiny black hole (referred to as a 'Node') "Node") into which matter is fed. The resulting energy release is used to drive the spaceship. As a result of this process, the black hole gradually increases in mass, and eventually has to be replaced. What happens to the 'used' "used" black holes is never explained.
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* ''VideoGame/OuterWilds'': The [[{{Precursors}} Nomai]] manufactured black holes and corresponding white holes for teleportation, on a small level using one-way warp pads to transport people between locations, and in the large scale putting both together in a “warp core” that allowed their ships to jump vast distances in space instantly. However, their most important known utility comes from exploiting their [[spoiler:weird temporal properties to send information backwards in time. The Nomai, searching for a mysterious object beyond the solar system with an unknown location, devised a time loop in which they’d fire a probe into deep space on a randomized trajectory, and the iteration that found it would retroactively transmit the coordinates back to base, so that the Nomai would have its location on the “first try”.]]
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* ''VideoGame/OuterWilds'': The [[{{Precursors}} Nomai]] manufactured black holes and corresponding white holes for teleportation, on a small level using one-way warp pads to transport people between locations, and in the large scale putting both together in a “warp core” that allowed their ships to jump vast distances in space instantly. However, their most important known utility comes from exploiting their [[spoiler:weird temporal properties to send information backwards in time. The Nomai, searching for a mysterious object beyond the solar system with an unknown location, devised used a warp core to create a time loop in which they’d fire a probe into deep space on a randomized trajectory, and the iteration that found it would retroactively transmit the coordinates back to base, so that the Nomai would have its location on the “first try”.]]
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* ''VideoGame/OuterWilds'': The [[{{Precursors}} Nomai]] manufactured black holes and corresponding white holes for teleportation, on a small level using one-way warp pads to transport people between locations, and in the large scale putting both together in a “warp core” that allowed their ships to jump vast distances in space instantly. However, their most important known utility comes from exploiting their [[spoiler:weird temporal properties to send information backwards in time. The Nomai, searching for a mysterious object beyond the solar system with an unknown location, devised a time loop in which they’d fire a probe into deep space on a randomized trajectory, and the iteration that found it would retroactively transmit the coordinates back to base, so that the Nomai would have its location on the “first try”.]]
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* In ''Webcomic/CaptainSNESTheGameMasta'', [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger Gato]] is revealed to be powered by a miniature black hole, which he also uses offensively when his safeties are disabled.
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* ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Transformers: Devastation]]'': [[PersonOfMassDestruction Sixshot]] boasts that he's powered by a hermetically sealed singularity when Optimus Prime first confronts him. Rather than intimidating Prime into surrendering, it instead motivates him to order the Autobots to disengage the power inhibitors on their weapons because they can't afford to worry about collateral damage when faced with such a powerful foe.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'': In the same continuity as ''Transformers: Devastation'', the PlanetEater Unicron draws power from a black hole at its core, but indirectly; it actually [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything exploits the black hole's quantum tunneling effects to drain energy from nearby stars]], causing them to dwindle and vanish every time it successfully eats a world.
* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'': In the same continuity as ''Transformers: Devastation'', the PlanetEater Unicron draws power from a black hole at its core, but indirectly; it actually [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything exploits the black hole's quantum tunneling effects to drain energy from nearby stars]], causing them to dwindle and vanish every time it successfully eats a world.
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** ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Transformers: Devastation]]'': [[PersonOfMassDestruction Sixshot]] boasts that he's powered by a hermetically sealed singularity when Optimus Prime first confronts him. Rather than intimidating Prime into surrendering, it instead motivates him to order the Autobots to disengage the power inhibitors on their weapons because they can't afford to worry about collateral damage when faced with such a powerful foe.
* ** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'': In the same continuity as ''Transformers: Devastation'', the PlanetEater Unicron draws power from a black hole at its core, but indirectly; it actually [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything exploits the black hole's quantum tunneling effects to drain energy from nearby stars]], causing them to dwindle and vanish every time it successfully eats a world.
** ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Transformers: Devastation]]'': [[PersonOfMassDestruction Sixshot]] boasts that he's powered by a hermetically sealed singularity when Optimus Prime first confronts him. Rather than intimidating Prime into surrendering, it instead motivates him to order the Autobots to disengage the power inhibitors on their weapons because they can't afford to worry about collateral damage when faced with such a powerful foe.
** Becomes a plot point in the ''TNG'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E23Timescape Timescape]]", when an alien species' attempts to incubate their offspring in the artificial singularity core of a Romulan warbird (as opposed to [[BizarreAlienBiology the natural singularities they would normally use]]) results in fracturing local space-time when the ''Enterprise''-D comes to assist the warbird after a DistressCall.
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** Also becomes a plot point in the ''TNG'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E23Timescape Timescape]]", when an alien species' attempts to incubate their offspring in the artificial singularity core of a Romulan warbird (as opposed to the natural singularities [[BizarreAlienBiology they would normally use]]) results in fracturing local space-time when the ''Enterprise''-D comes to assist the warbird after a DistressCall.
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* In ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' any faction, once it is advanced enough, is capable of equipping its bases and units with singularity drives. Of particular note, the destructive yield of any [[FantasticNuke Planet Buster]] equipped with such a power source is downright terrifying.
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* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': Most Romulan ships use a singularity core consisting of a confined microsingularity, instead of a matter-antimatter warp core. Playable Romulan ships are additionally able to manipulate the singularity for various {{technobabble}} effects. Additionally, the "ship destruction" animation has the ship collapse into its own drive singularity rather than merely exploding as with ships of other factions. [[MadeOfExplodium Then it explodes.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'' your faction, once it is advanced enough, is capable of equipping its bases and units with singularity drives. Of particular note, the destructive yield of any [[FantasticNuke Planet Buster]] equipped with such a power source is downright terrifying.
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-> '''Academician Prokhor Zakharov:''' What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon? Decent people shouldn't think too much about that.
-> '''Academician Prokhor Zakharov:''' What actually transpires beneath the veil of an event horizon? Decent people shouldn't think too much about that.
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** The megastructures DLC uses them not for energy but for mining, with the Matter Decompressor that extracts from the mass the black hole has accumulated for millennia.
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Even black holes themselves give off their own energy known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation Hawking Radiation]], which, in layman's terms, is the result of black holes slowly evaporating over [[TimeAbyss inconceivably-long time scales of over 10 to the 64 (that's 64 zeros) years on average]] due to quantum effects near the Event Horizon. A future space civilization is likely to take advantage of black holes around the tail end of the dying universe when there's no more stars to use.
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Even black holes themselves give off their own energy known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation Hawking Radiation]], which, in layman's terms, is the result of black holes slowly evaporating over [[TimeAbyss inconceivably-long time scales scales]] of over 10 to the 64 10^64 (that's 64 zeros) years on average]] average due to quantum effects near the Event Horizon.event horizon. A future space civilization is likely to take advantage of black holes around the tail end of the dying universe when there's no more stars to use.
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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/grant-request-for-the-construction-of-an-interstellar-scienc Prometheus Labs proposes building a spacecraft like this,]] using a microscopic black hole's Hawking radiation to accelerate and power the ship.
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* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/grant-request-for-the-construction-of-an-interstellar-scienc Prometheus Labs proposes building a spacecraft like this,]] using a microscopic black hole's Hawking radiation to accelerate and power the ship.
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* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration [[UniverseBible Writers' Technical Manual]]'' states that the Romulan ''D'Deridex''-class warbird is believed to be powered by x-ray emissions from a captured microsingularity, rather than fusion and matter/antimatter reactors like most other ships. ''Franchise/StarTrek'' canon has usually adhered to this since then, DependingOnTheWriter. {{Exploited}} in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E17Visionary Visionary]]" when the crew are able to [[StealthInSpace locate a cloaked warbird]] by hunting for the mass signature of its drive singularity.
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* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration [[UniverseBible Writers' Technical Manual]]'' states that the Romulan ''D'Deridex''-class warbird is believed to be powered by x-ray emissions from a captured microsingularity, rather than fusion and matter/antimatter reactors like most other ships. ''Franchise/StarTrek'' canon has usually adhered to this since then, DependingOnTheWriter. DependingOnTheWriter.
** {{Exploited}} in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E17Visionary Visionary]]" when the crew are able to [[StealthInSpace locate a cloaked warbird]] by hunting for the mass signature of its drivesingularity.singularity.
** Also becomes a plot point in the ''TNG'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E23Timescape Timescape]]", when an alien species' attempts to incubate their offspring in the artificial singularity core of a Romulan warbird (as opposed to the natural singularities [[BizarreAlienBiology they would normally use]]) results in fracturing local space-time when the ''Enterprise''-D comes to assist the warbird after a DistressCall.
** {{Exploited}} in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E17Visionary Visionary]]" when the crew are able to [[StealthInSpace locate a cloaked warbird]] by hunting for the mass signature of its drive
** Also becomes a plot point in the ''TNG'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E23Timescape Timescape]]", when an alien species' attempts to incubate their offspring in the artificial singularity core of a Romulan warbird (as opposed to the natural singularities [[BizarreAlienBiology they would normally use]]) results in fracturing local space-time when the ''Enterprise''-D comes to assist the warbird after a DistressCall.
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* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersUnicron'': In the same continuity as ''Transformers: Devastation'', the PlanetEater Unicron draws power from a black hole at its core, but indirectly; it actually [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything exploits the black hole's quantum tunneling effects to drain energy from nearby stars]], causing them to dwindle and vanish every time it successfully eats a world.
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* ''Literature/TheQuantumThief'': In ''The Causal Angel'', Jean le Flambeur's ship Leblanc has a black hole that emits Hawking Radiation which is used for propulsion.
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* ''Literature/TheCausalAngel'': Jean le Flambeur's ship Leblanc has a black hole that emits Hawking Radiation which is used for propulsion.
* ''Literature/TheQuantumThief'': In ''The Causal Angel'', Jean le Flambeur's ship Leblanc has a black hole that emits Hawking Radiation which is used for propulsion.
* ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' has the level "Launch Command", from the Hangar Unit, where the objective is to destroy a computer controlling the Black Hole Generator, seen at the beginning of the level, which provides energy to Strogg mechanisms that allow the race to travel to other universes.
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* Indirectly done in ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': black holes can produce dark matter, which can be used, among others, in some ship reactors to power them.
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* ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Transformers: Devastation]]'': [[PersonOfMassDestruction Sixshot]] boasts that he's powered by a hermetically sealed singularity when Optimus Prime first confronts him. Rather than intimidating Prime into surrendering, it instead motivates him to order the Autobots to disengage the power inhibitors on their weapons because they can't afford to worry about collateral damage when faced with such a powerful foe.
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* ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries Transformers: Devastation]]'': [[PersonOfMassDestruction Sixshot]] boasts that he's powered by a hermetically sealed singularity when Optimus Prime first confronts him. Rather than intimidating Prime into surrendering, it instead motivates him to order the Autobots to disengage the power inhibitors on their weapons because they can't afford to worry about collateral damage when faced with such a powerful foe.
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* In ''Film/EventHorizon'', the eponymous starship uses an artificial black hole drive to achieve faster-than-light travel.
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** The ''Gigastructural Engineering'' mod adds a few more options. If you just need a power generator, you can build a Penrose Sphere around a black hole and let the constant reflection between the latter and the sphere's mirrored insides generate energy. If you're thinking ''big'', you can work on this principle until you get a Birch World, an ''unfathomably'' huge Habitat that uses the black hole for both gravity and power, and has essentially unlimited space for habitation.
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* The Ganymeans in ''The Literature/GiantsSeries'' use spinning artificial singularities to power their ships. The Thuriens take it to a higher level, using the spinning singularities to create portals through space and time; large portals to carry people and ships, or tiny portals to carry information and power. They generate the immense amounts of power that their civilization needs with stellar-scale artificial black holes.
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* ''[[Literature/TheQuantumThief The Causal Angel]]'': [[PhantomThief Jean le Flambeur's]] ship Leblanc has a black hole that emits Hawking radiation which is used for propulsion. The same principle is used by the zoku Gun Club, only their warships are much bigger and [[WaveMotionGun point the radiation jet at the enemy]].
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* ''[[Literature/TheQuantumThief The Causal Angel]]'': [[PhantomThief ''Literature/TheCausalAngel'': Jean le Flambeur's]] Flambeur's ship Leblanc has a black hole that emits Hawking radiation Radiation which is used for propulsion. The same principle is used by the zoku Gun Club, only their warships are much bigger and [[WaveMotionGun point the radiation jet at the enemy]].propulsion.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'': The Goonstation and /tg/station servers feature a Singularity Engine as a powerful but dangerous power source. Should the singularity get loose, it will wander around the station destroying everything it touches. Stopping it requires either careful use of explosives (Goonstation) or sacrifices (/tg/station), and even they aren't foolproof. To emphasize the danger, the Goonstation wiki's heading on rogue singularities is labeled [[OhCrap "Uh Oh"]], and /tg/station has dubbed the singularity "Lord Singuloth".
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* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration [[UniverseBible Writers' Technical Manual]]'' states that Romulan warbirds are believed to be powered by x-ray emissions from a captured microsingularity, rather than fusion and matter/antimatter reactors like most other ships, including Federation and Klingon ships. ''Franchise/StarTrek'' canon has usually adhered to this since then, DependingOnTheWriter. {{Exploited}} in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E17Visionary Visionary]]" when the crew are able to [[StealthInSpace locate a cloaked warbird]] by hunting for the mass signature of its drive singularity.
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->''"This is a huge vessel, which is probably more than a match for the ''Enterprise'' in terms of firepower. Maximum sustainable warp speed is about 9.1, slightly slower than that of the ''Enterprise''. Power source is believed to be a system which harnesses the x-ray emissions from a captive quantum singularity."''
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Writers' Technical Manual'', Season 4 edition, on the Romulan ''D'Deridex''-class warbird
While it is [[UnrealisticBlackHole popularly believed that black holes are like giant vacuum-cleaners in space]], [[ScienceMarchesOn it is not actually completely true]] that anything that falls into a black hole is lost forever. [[RealityIsUnrealistic In reality]], black holes are actually the most powerful sources of energy in the universe, even more so than stars themselves. Even though black holes are famous for not allowing even light to escape, this is only true if light enters the event horizon: their accretion disks are capable of producing light as long as there's a constant source of matter feeding them. When matter falls into a black hole, tidal forces stretch and heat up the material to extremely hot temperatures which gives off potent x-rays. Supermassive black holes in particular, when fed ''a lot'' of matter, have the potential to outshine entire galaxies.
Even black holes themselves give off their own energy known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation Hawking Radiation]], which, in layman's terms, is the result of black holes slowly evaporating over [[TimeAbyss inconceivably-long time scales of over 10 to the 64 (that's 64 zeros) years on average]] due to quantum effects near the Event Horizon. A future space civilization is likely to take advantage of black holes around the tail end of the dying universe when there's no more stars to use.
[[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness Harder science fiction]] will typically rely one one or more of the following real-world theories (softer sci-fi tends to {{handwave}} it or cite {{technobabble}} such as ThePowerOfTheVoid):
* Energy is released from matter as it falls into a black hole from the accretion disc. This can be captured and turned into useful forms.
* Black holes have magnetic fields that can be harnessed to generate power.
* Spinning black holes produce rotational energy that can be extracted.
* Black holes that are not fed will slowly evaporate in the form of Hawking radiation, which could theoretically be captured. (In practice, the universe is not yet cool enough for this form of decay to be possible.)
* A black hole can be used as a ReactionlessDrive for a spacecraft by placing it in the intended direction of travel so that it pulls the ship along behind it.
Of course, this is all dependent on a civilization having developed technology that can withstand the extreme conditions near the event horizon, which include massive gravitational and radiation effects and TimeDilation. Additionally, things typically will GoHorriblyWrong if the black hole breaks free of any confinement used (for example, if it's a microsingularity housed within a SpaceStation or CoolStarship), or the infrastructure that harvests energy is damaged and begins to fall in. In which case, this overlaps with NatureIsNotAToy.
Compare OurWormholesAreDifferent, SpaceshipSlingshotStunt, and GravityMaster for other ways black holes could be put to use.
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!! Examples:
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
*In ''Film/EventHorizon'', the eponymous starship uses an artificial black hole drive to achieve faster-than-light travel.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Literature]]
* The prospect of generating energy with black holes is brought up several times in ''Literature/Aeon14''.
** In ''Destiny Lost'', shenanigans involving an EarthShatteringKaboom result in a brown dwarf in the Bollam's World System being artificially compressed into a black hole. The brown dwarf had been artificially inflated with gravity fields to generate helium-3 for fusion fuel, but the protagonists remark that the Bollers could actually get ''more'' energy by harnessing the new black hole as a power source.
** [=DMGs=] emerge during the Orion War as a WaveMotionGun capable of overwhelming the ISF's [[NighInvulnerability formerly invulnerable]] stasis shields. The problem is, they require so much energy that they have to be fixed into a hollowed-out moon so that they can be powered by a captured singularity. The second time a DMG emplacement is encountered, damage from the Transcend Space Force's counterattack causes it to [[ApocalypseHow break loose, eat the moon, and enter a decaying orbit around the planet]]. [[spoiler: The Intrepid Space Force adapts the DMG to run on vacuum energy instead, enabling them to be mounted on their own ''I''-class motherships.]]
** In ''Race Across Spacetime'', the Core [=AIs=] are shown dumping stars into Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way, to power massive computers for complex calculations.
* ''Literature/TheCausalAngel'': Jean le Flambeur's ship Leblanc has a black hole that emits Hawking Radiation which is used for propulsion.
* The Ur-Example is the asymptotic drives in "Literature/ImperialEarth" by "Creator/ArthurCClarke" '''NEEDS MORE DETAIL OR WILL BE COMMENTED OUT'''
* Ships in Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/InFuryBorn'' use artificial singularities as engines. They double as DeflectorShields, since the singularity eats any incoming gunfire that crosses its path.
* In the Creator/CharlesSheffield story "Killing Vector", energy extracted from a Kerr-Newman black hole is described as powering the rocket engines.
* ''Literature/StarCarrier'': For power needs too great for fusion reactors, such as spaceships, humans make use of quantum power taps, consisting of two microsingularities shielded by Higgs fields orbiting each other at relativistic speeds, which essentially allows them to pull energy from vacuum.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Rassilon was able to harness the power of a Black Hole in an "Eye of Harmony", which sits under the Panopticon in the center of the Time Lord Citadel.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration [[UniverseBible Writers' Technical Manual]]'' states that Romulan warbirds are believed to be powered by x-ray emissions from a captured microsingularity, rather than fusion and matter/antimatter reactors like most other ships, including Federation and Klingon ships. ''Franchise/StarTrek'' canon has usually adhered to this since then, DependingOnTheWriter. {{Exploited}} in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E17Visionary Visionary]]" when the crew are able to [[StealthInSpace locate a cloaked warbird]] by hunting for the mass signature of its drive singularity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/DysonSphereProgram'', {{Dyson Sphere}}s (which were originally conceived as solar energy collectors) can be built around black holes.
*''VideoGame/EveOnline'': starships designed by the Triglavian faction utilize naked singularities contained on the external hull as their vessel's primary power source.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'': [[https://youtu.be/wX9Sc88qreg?t=12 Aperture Investment Opportunity #4: "Boots"]] implies this for the Portal Gun, because it can stop working if the Miniature Black Hole inside fails.
*''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': Most Romulan ships use a singularity core consisting of a confined microsingularity, instead of a matter-antimatter warp core. Playable Romulan ships are additionally able to manipulate the singularity for various {{technobabble}} effects. Additionally, the "ship destruction" animation has the ship collapse into its own drive singularity rather than merely exploding as with ships of other factions. [[MadeOfExplodium Then it explodes.]]
* ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' has the level "Launch Command", from the Hangar Unit, where the objective is to destroy a computer controlling the Black Hole Generator, seen at the beginning of the level, which provides energy to Strogg mechanisms that allow the race to travel to other universes.
* Indirectly done in ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': black holes can produce dark matter, which can be used, among others, in some ship reactors to power them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'': The title character and other [[AfterTheEnd pre-apocalyptic]] {{Super Soldier}}s are [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything quantum entangled]] with black holes to [[https://www.alicegrove.com/post/162825065129/oh-ok fuel]] their [[SuperStrength strength]], [[SuperSpeed speed]], and [[SuperToughness toughess]].
-->'''Alice:''' We are Maxwell's Demons. We are powered by black holes, and the laws of physics are optional for us.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS3E9TheMadScientistMissedConnection The Mad Scientist]]", Lisa invents a TimeMachine that involves both a black hole and a wormhole in its construction.
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!!Indexes: AppliedPhlebotinum, GravityTropes, ImageSource.{{Magazines}}, PowerSource, RealityIsUnrealistic, SpeculativeFictionTropes, TropesInSpace
->''"This is a huge vessel, which is probably more than a match for the ''Enterprise'' in terms of firepower. Maximum sustainable warp speed is about 9.1, slightly slower than that of the ''Enterprise''. Power source is believed to be a system which harnesses the x-ray emissions from a captive quantum singularity."''
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Writers' Technical Manual'', Season 4 edition, on the Romulan ''D'Deridex''-class warbird
While it is [[UnrealisticBlackHole popularly believed that black holes are like giant vacuum-cleaners in space]], [[ScienceMarchesOn it is not actually completely true]] that anything that falls into a black hole is lost forever. [[RealityIsUnrealistic In reality]], black holes are actually the most powerful sources of energy in the universe, even more so than stars themselves. Even though black holes are famous for not allowing even light to escape, this is only true if light enters the event horizon: their accretion disks are capable of producing light as long as there's a constant source of matter feeding them. When matter falls into a black hole, tidal forces stretch and heat up the material to extremely hot temperatures which gives off potent x-rays. Supermassive black holes in particular, when fed ''a lot'' of matter, have the potential to outshine entire galaxies.
Even black holes themselves give off their own energy known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation Hawking Radiation]], which, in layman's terms, is the result of black holes slowly evaporating over [[TimeAbyss inconceivably-long time scales of over 10 to the 64 (that's 64 zeros) years on average]] due to quantum effects near the Event Horizon. A future space civilization is likely to take advantage of black holes around the tail end of the dying universe when there's no more stars to use.
[[MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness Harder science fiction]] will typically rely one one or more of the following real-world theories (softer sci-fi tends to {{handwave}} it or cite {{technobabble}} such as ThePowerOfTheVoid):
* Energy is released from matter as it falls into a black hole from the accretion disc. This can be captured and turned into useful forms.
* Black holes have magnetic fields that can be harnessed to generate power.
* Spinning black holes produce rotational energy that can be extracted.
* Black holes that are not fed will slowly evaporate in the form of Hawking radiation, which could theoretically be captured. (In practice, the universe is not yet cool enough for this form of decay to be possible.)
* A black hole can be used as a ReactionlessDrive for a spacecraft by placing it in the intended direction of travel so that it pulls the ship along behind it.
Of course, this is all dependent on a civilization having developed technology that can withstand the extreme conditions near the event horizon, which include massive gravitational and radiation effects and TimeDilation. Additionally, things typically will GoHorriblyWrong if the black hole breaks free of any confinement used (for example, if it's a microsingularity housed within a SpaceStation or CoolStarship), or the infrastructure that harvests energy is damaged and begins to fall in. In which case, this overlaps with NatureIsNotAToy.
Compare OurWormholesAreDifferent, SpaceshipSlingshotStunt, and GravityMaster for other ways black holes could be put to use.
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!! Examples:
[[foldercontrol]]
[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
*In ''Film/EventHorizon'', the eponymous starship uses an artificial black hole drive to achieve faster-than-light travel.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Literature]]
* The prospect of generating energy with black holes is brought up several times in ''Literature/Aeon14''.
** In ''Destiny Lost'', shenanigans involving an EarthShatteringKaboom result in a brown dwarf in the Bollam's World System being artificially compressed into a black hole. The brown dwarf had been artificially inflated with gravity fields to generate helium-3 for fusion fuel, but the protagonists remark that the Bollers could actually get ''more'' energy by harnessing the new black hole as a power source.
** [=DMGs=] emerge during the Orion War as a WaveMotionGun capable of overwhelming the ISF's [[NighInvulnerability formerly invulnerable]] stasis shields. The problem is, they require so much energy that they have to be fixed into a hollowed-out moon so that they can be powered by a captured singularity. The second time a DMG emplacement is encountered, damage from the Transcend Space Force's counterattack causes it to [[ApocalypseHow break loose, eat the moon, and enter a decaying orbit around the planet]]. [[spoiler: The Intrepid Space Force adapts the DMG to run on vacuum energy instead, enabling them to be mounted on their own ''I''-class motherships.]]
** In ''Race Across Spacetime'', the Core [=AIs=] are shown dumping stars into Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way, to power massive computers for complex calculations.
* ''Literature/TheCausalAngel'': Jean le Flambeur's ship Leblanc has a black hole that emits Hawking Radiation which is used for propulsion.
* The Ur-Example is the asymptotic drives in "Literature/ImperialEarth" by "Creator/ArthurCClarke" '''NEEDS MORE DETAIL OR WILL BE COMMENTED OUT'''
* Ships in Creator/DavidWeber's ''Literature/InFuryBorn'' use artificial singularities as engines. They double as DeflectorShields, since the singularity eats any incoming gunfire that crosses its path.
* In the Creator/CharlesSheffield story "Killing Vector", energy extracted from a Kerr-Newman black hole is described as powering the rocket engines.
* ''Literature/StarCarrier'': For power needs too great for fusion reactors, such as spaceships, humans make use of quantum power taps, consisting of two microsingularities shielded by Higgs fields orbiting each other at relativistic speeds, which essentially allows them to pull energy from vacuum.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Rassilon was able to harness the power of a Black Hole in an "Eye of Harmony", which sits under the Panopticon in the center of the Time Lord Citadel.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration [[UniverseBible Writers' Technical Manual]]'' states that Romulan warbirds are believed to be powered by x-ray emissions from a captured microsingularity, rather than fusion and matter/antimatter reactors like most other ships, including Federation and Klingon ships. ''Franchise/StarTrek'' canon has usually adhered to this since then, DependingOnTheWriter. {{Exploited}} in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E17Visionary Visionary]]" when the crew are able to [[StealthInSpace locate a cloaked warbird]] by hunting for the mass signature of its drive singularity.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/DysonSphereProgram'', {{Dyson Sphere}}s (which were originally conceived as solar energy collectors) can be built around black holes.
*''VideoGame/EveOnline'': starships designed by the Triglavian faction utilize naked singularities contained on the external hull as their vessel's primary power source.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'': [[https://youtu.be/wX9Sc88qreg?t=12 Aperture Investment Opportunity #4: "Boots"]] implies this for the Portal Gun, because it can stop working if the Miniature Black Hole inside fails.
*''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': Most Romulan ships use a singularity core consisting of a confined microsingularity, instead of a matter-antimatter warp core. Playable Romulan ships are additionally able to manipulate the singularity for various {{technobabble}} effects. Additionally, the "ship destruction" animation has the ship collapse into its own drive singularity rather than merely exploding as with ships of other factions. [[MadeOfExplodium Then it explodes.]]
* ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' has the level "Launch Command", from the Hangar Unit, where the objective is to destroy a computer controlling the Black Hole Generator, seen at the beginning of the level, which provides energy to Strogg mechanisms that allow the race to travel to other universes.
* Indirectly done in ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': black holes can produce dark matter, which can be used, among others, in some ship reactors to power them.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/AliceGrove'': The title character and other [[AfterTheEnd pre-apocalyptic]] {{Super Soldier}}s are [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything quantum entangled]] with black holes to [[https://www.alicegrove.com/post/162825065129/oh-ok fuel]] their [[SuperStrength strength]], [[SuperSpeed speed]], and [[SuperToughness toughess]].
-->'''Alice:''' We are Maxwell's Demons. We are powered by black holes, and the laws of physics are optional for us.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS3E9TheMadScientistMissedConnection The Mad Scientist]]", Lisa invents a TimeMachine that involves both a black hole and a wormhole in its construction.
[[/folder]]
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!!Indexes: AppliedPhlebotinum, GravityTropes, ImageSource.{{Magazines}}, PowerSource, RealityIsUnrealistic, SpeculativeFictionTropes, TropesInSpace
