Black holes as rechargeable batteries and nuclear reactors

Zhan-Feng Mai and Run-Qiu Yang
Phys. Rev. D 108, 104066 – Published 29 November 2023

Abstract

This paper proposes physical processes to use a Schwarzschild black hole as a rechargeable battery and nuclear reactor. As a rechargeable battery, it can at most transform 25% of input mass into available electric energy in a controllable and slow way. We study its internal resistance, efficiency of discharging, maximum output power, cycle life, and totally available energy. As a nuclear reactor, it realizes an effective nuclear reaction “α particles+black holepositrons+black hole” and can transform 25% mass of α particle into the kinetic energy of positrons. This process amplifies the available kinetic energy of natural decay hundreds of times. Since some tiny-sized primordial black holes are suspected to have an appreciable density in dark matter, the result of this paper implies that such black-hole-originated dark matter can be used as reactors to supply energy.

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  • Received 12 June 2023
  • Accepted 3 October 2023

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.104066

© 2023 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & AstrophysicsParticles & Fields

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Zhan-Feng Mai* and Run-Qiu Yang

  • Center for Joint Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, School of Science, Tianjin University, Yaguan Road 135, Jinnan District, 300350 Tianjin, People’s Republic of China

  • *zhanfeng.mai@gmail.com
  • aqiu@tju.edu.cn

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Vol. 108, Iss. 10 — 15 November 2023

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