Black holes, despite their name, are far from being an empty space in the dark abyss. These condensed areas of space have mesmerized scientists for decades because gravity pulls so much that even light can’t escape them. Black holes are mountains of matter.
While we usually think of black holes as being inescapable, something humans should stay far away from, a recent paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Physics Review D resurfaces an ongoing idea in astronomy that there could be a use for black holes for us on Earth in the future — as an energy source.
