Stephen Hawking: People should use the energy of black holes to generate electricity

Physicist Stephen Hawking argues that humans can use a small black hole to supply electricity to the world.

Physicists say humans can harness the energy of a small black hole to power the Earth. However, he also warned of overexploitation of the power of small black holes pushing humanity into catastrophic destruction.

Professor Hawking explained that, when particles fall into the black hole, it can continuously transform into pairs, then split and join together again, eventually destroying each other.

Stephen Hawking.(Photo: Getty Images).

He describes these particles as "virtual" particles and cannot be seen with the naked eye even with detectors. However, their indirect effects can be measured, which is how scientists can detect their existence.

In the BBC's lecture series, Professor Hawking said: "At present, half of the pairs of virtual particles will fall into the black hole, causing the particles without the remaining pairs to be annihilated. The particles should not be paired or The antiparticle will fall into the black hole along with the particles that once paired with them, but it can also escape into space, where radiation from the black hole appears. "

"A black hole of the same size as the sun will cause particles to leak at a slow rate, so it will be hard to detect," he added. However, smaller black holes, such as the size of a mountain, will emit X-rays and gamma rays with energies of 10 million megawatts, enough to power the entire Earth.

Professor Hawking argues that humans can harness power from a cosmic black hole (Photo: Express).

However, the author of "The History of Time" also argues that it is not easy to exploit a small black hole. People cannot keep black holes in a power plant, because they will penetrate the floor and fall into the core of the Earth. The only way to keep the small black hole active is to keep it in Earth's orbit.

Professor Hawking then joked: "People have been trying to find these small black holes but still have no results. This is a pity, because if they find out, I would have won the Nobel Prize. ".