State reduction and energy extraction from black holes

TL;DR

This paper proposes that attempts to detect Hawking radiation could lead to the extraction of ultra-high energies from black holes, with energies growing exponentially and entering quantum-gravitational regimes.

Contribution

It introduces a mechanism where measurement attempts induce energy extraction from black holes, highlighting quantum effects at trans-Planckian scales.

Findings

Detection attempts produce ultra-energetic particles

Energy extraction grows exponentially during collapse

Quantum-gravitational effects become significant

Abstract

I show that attempts to detect Hawking quanta would reduce the quantum state to one containing ultra-energetic incoming particles; couplings of these to other systems would extract ultra-high energies from the gravitational collapse. As the collapse proceeds, these energies grow exponentially, rapidly become trans-Planckian, and quantum-gravitational effects must enter.