Black holes are one of the most bizarre and terrifying results from general relativity - a singularity of infinite density from which even light cannot escape. Black holes fascinate us and this has led some to wonder if the could even be used as a power source. Micro black holes, that is black holes much lighter than a star, could be one of way of doing this. Today we explore the possibilities of a micro black hole and exactly how it might be possible to turn them into power banks. Written and Presented by Prof. David Kipping. All planet images/videos shown are artistic impressions and not real photographs, except for the reconstructed image of Messier 87* You can now support our research program and the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University: https://www.coolworldslab.com/support References: ► Hawking, Stephen (1974), "Black hole explosions?", Nature, 248, 30: https://www.nature.com/articles/248030a0 ► Carter, Brandon (1971), "Axisymmetric Black Hole Has Only Two Degrees of Freedom", Physics Review Letters, 26, 331: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.26.331 ► Newman, E. T., Couch, E., Chinnapared, K., Exton, A., Prakash, A., Torrence, R. (1965), "Metric of a Rotating, Charged Mass", Journal of Mathematical Physics, 6, 918: https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1704351 ► Crane, L. & Westmoreland, S. (2009), "Are Black Hole Starships Possible", arXiv e-prints 0908.1803: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1803 ► Kipping, David (2018), "The Halo Drive: Fuel-free relativistic propulsion of large masses via recycled boomerang photons", Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 71, 458: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.03423 Video materials and graphics used: ► ESO animations credit to ESO and Herbert Zodet: https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1706a/ ► Sun turning into a black hole credit to ESA/Hubble/M. Kornmesser: https://youtu.be/nKCqZAPGwNE ► Black hole animation credit to CGI 3D Animated Short: "INTRA" by Thomas Vanz: https