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Rotating Black Holes are Packed with Energy. Here's How to Unlock It


black holes are the most powerful source of energy in the known Universe and are the cause of some of the most spectacular and extreme astronomical phenomena. The goal of this article is to analyze, in simple terms, the physics of energy extraction in rotating black holes.

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