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Sample Slides & Explanations
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Sketch of a black hole |
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How a rocket can overcome
its negative potential energy with sufficient kinetic energy to allow
it to escape a gravitational field
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Material from interstellar
gases, stars, etc., is pulled toward the central black hole
accumulating in an "accretion disk".
About 75% of the material
will eventually fall into the black hole, while 25% will be ejected
along the spinning black hole's north and south poles, forming
immense jets, some longer than our Milky Way galaxy. |
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Cluster of new stars less
than 2M years old. |
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When lower mass stars run
out of fuel, the core collapses in an immense implosion, creating a
White Dwarf, the central white dot, and blowing the star's outer
layers off into space, creating beautiful nebula. |
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Penrose's scheme to achieve 100% mass
conversion efficiency with a spinning black hole. The rocket dumps
material, which could be trash, at the event horizon and returns to
an orbiting society (shown in green) with excess energy = mass of
trash times c2. |
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