Tuesday, April 25, 2006

An answer to the gas problem



Via Space.com, it appears that black holes are actually green. Black Holes are Actually Green:
A new study finds that the supermassive black holes at the hearts of some galaxies are the most fuel efficient engines in the universe.

"If you could make a car engine that was as efficient as one of these black holes, you could get about a billion miles out of a gallon of gas," said study team leader Steve Allen of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University. "In anyone's book, that would be pretty green."

The finding, made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and announced in a media teleconference today, is giving scientists insights into how supermassive black holes generate energy and how they affect the galaxies where they make their homes.

A beeeelion miles per gallon! whoo hooo!! I would like a black-hole powered Acura, please.

2 comments:

flory said...

They're still working out that gravity problem.

May be a year or two before they're on the market.

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