Mining Energy from a Black Hole by Strings
V. Frolov, D. Fursaev

TL;DR
This paper explores how cosmic strings can serve as an efficient channel to extract energy from black holes, potentially increasing the energy emission rate significantly compared to standard Hawking radiation.
Contribution
It introduces a novel mechanism where cosmic strings crossing black holes enable enhanced energy extraction, with quantification of the potential increase in emission rates.
Findings
Energy emission rate can be increased by up to 10^3 for GUT strings.
Electroweak strings can increase emission rate by up to 10^{31}.
The process involves thermal excitations on strings acting as Hawking radiation analogs.
Abstract
We discuss how cosmic strings can be used to mine energy from black holes. A string attached to the black hole gives rise to an additional channel for the energy release. It is demonstrated that when a string crosses the event horizon, its transverse degrees of freedom are thermally excited and thermal string perturbations propagate along the string to infinity. The internal metric induced on the 2D worldsheet of the static string crossing the horizon describes a 2D black hole. For this reason thermal radiation of string excitations propagating along the string can be interpreted as Hawking radiation of the 2D black hole. It is shown that the rate of energy emission through the string channel is of the same order of magnitude as the bulk radiation of the black hole. Thus, for N strings attached to the black hole the efficiency of string channels is increased by factor N. We discuss…
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