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The Unreasonable Efficiency of Black Holes

This video is about how efficient various reactions are at converting mass to energy (as we know from the Einstein mass-energy equivalence of E=mc^2). Antimatter is very efficient but it is not naturally-occurring. Chemical reactions like fire or explosions are very inefficient. Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are better, but not amazing on an absolute scale. Non-rotating black holes (Schwarzschild) and rotating (Kerr) are by far the most efficient, due to their accretion disks and very small radius of their innermost stable circular orbits.

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  • Originally Aired December 31, 2017
  • Runtime 3 minutes
  • Network YouTube
  • Notes Is a season finale
  • Created December 31, 2017 by
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