Civilizations at the End of Time: Black Hole Farming

In this video we jump trillions of years into the future to examine the concept of civilizations living in a dark, post-stellar Universe, where we encounter some surprising possibilities about just how abundant and robust life might be in a seemingly dark and dead Universe.

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Blandford-Znajek mechanism versus Penrose process by S. S. Komissarov (2008):
https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1912