Fiction:Virgo Birch Planet/BH

Black Holes
The Virgo Birch Planet has the ability to freely create, store, and manipulate black holes and other similar objects. Black holes are infinitely dense points of energy that have such high surface gravity that they form an event horizon, when can be entered by not exited. Due to general relativity, time slows down exponentially the closer to a black hole a person gets so that and hour near the object may be a hundred years in the outside universe. This has the consequence of also increasing the frequency of light as it falls closer to the black hole and decreasing it as it moves away. As gravitational force increases the closer to a black hole the object is, the near end of an object can be pulled harder than the far edge, causing a directional net force that can tear an object in half via spaghettification. Schwarzschild black holes are those that have no net angular momentum and have no charge and thus have the simplest properties.

Kerr black holes are rotating and thus have angular momentum. They have a cucurboid region around near the event horizon called the '''ergosphere. '''This region experiences a phenomenon called frame-dragging where objects in the ergosphere are pulled along with the rotation of the black hole, almost as if it creates a whirlpool in the fabric of space. This means that any object with a trajectory that gives it a close approach to a rotating black hole will gain energy from the black hole, greatly acelerating the object while only slowing the black hole's rotation by a minuscule amount. All naturally occuring black holes are Kerr Black Holes because they inherit the rotational energy of the star they formed from as angular momentum.

The planet has many black holes still stored from the time of its construction hundreds of millions of years ago. Some of these were constructed out of stars at the time as the Pristini Galaxy was collapsed ans others naturally existed in the galaxy from naturally dead stars.

Artificial Black Holes
Artificial black holes can be produced from a microscopic kugelblitz kernal. This is a microscopic black hole where the mass-energy comes from the momentum of photons collided at a specific point in space. The vast number of high-energy photons needed are produced from stellasers, meaning that Finkelstein Nucleators usually have a number of whole stars or delocalised strips of star-like material incorporated into their structure as well as other components like a GIR. The resulting kernal can then be fed with more high-energy radiation, or other massive particles to increase the mass of the black hole to the desired size. These black holes can be used to provide immense forces needed to maintain the compositional integrity of materials like neutronium, quarkonium, and Hawking steel. These black holes are prevented from falling down and damaging the crust via artificial gravitational fields.

Kugelblitz Generators
As these black holes are very small, they radiate very large amounts of energy via the Hawking mechanism. This will gradually decrease the mass of a black hole over time as it is radiated as this energy. This means that a kugelblitz black hole can effectively act as an almost 100% efficient matter-to-energy conversion device.

Devices such as these provide much of the power on the Birch planet and form a vital part of the power grid. A large generator will sit at the center of a cluster of constructs that require power and is fed off the plasma in the EPS grid. These generators require very precise alignment of matter injectors due to the small cross-section of the black hole so the matter must be fed in as a confined plasma stream of particles. The only limiting factor is how much energy can be collected, not how much can be generated

Matter Enlightenment
Dark matter has mass and so can also be used to feed a kugelblitz. if the resulting energy that is generated is used for baryogenic or leptogenic processes, the total path of the mass-energy can be traced from dark matter to normal matter, effectively converting dark matter into regular matter. Matter enlightenment reactors are machines that have all the necessary components in close proximity to allow the rapid conversion of one form of matter into another. This process can be achieved in reverse to create dark matter particles, but usually isn't.

Kugelblitz Bombs
Kugelblitz Bombs are simply kugelblitz black holes that have been fed to an arbitrary mass, and then left to radiate that mass rapidly near a target, releasing a very rapid surge of energy. To be effective, this energy must be released over a short period, so there is an upper limit on the mass-energy that can be released this way, at least by a single black hole.

These are some of the most powerful conventional weapons available to the Birch planet and can be transported through wormholes to destroy practically any target. The black hole can be prevented from detonating prematurely by constantly feeding it the same amount of mass-energy as it's radiating in the form of solid mass, or by reflecting the hawking radiation back into the black hole.

Conversion Table
A balance must be found between the power output rate of the kugelblitz and the rate matter must be fed into it. This means that black holes in the gigatonne-kilotonne range are most often used. Less massive black holes have a greater power output rate but are much harder to feed due to their small size, and don;t last as long, meaning an error in the feed rate will cause the black hole to violently detonate. Smaller black holes are needed for bombs because although black holes heavier than about 100 Kilotonnes have a higher explosive yield, this is released over a period of years instead of rapidly. Black holes that are too small don't have a yield high enough to warrant their construction and are too unstable to prevent from detonating prematurely, so are only used for specialized applications.