How would one destroy a black hole?
Science-Fiction has tools to destroy anything: atoms, molecules, DNA, cellular organisms, multicellular organisms, buildings, streets, cities, countries, continents, planets, and even stars. Some extreme settings even have tools to destroy entire galaxies, and I know of at least one setting (Doctor Who) where they can destroy a whole universe and even the multiverse.
However, as far as I know, no scientist or writer has come up with a way to destroy a black hole. I'm not just talking about "wait for it to decay through Hawking Radiation"; I'm talking about "use this and the black hole just disappears in a reasonable timeframe.
Would such a method even exist? It can require unobtanium, obviously.
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So. Black holes are hard to approach. Time gets a little, shall we say, funky as you get closer. And then, of course, there's the tide. They'll tear a ship apart quicker than anything. I won't even give more than a cursory nod to the radiation, as we're all familiar with that. So, obviously, dropping some sort of magic bomb into the black hole won't work.
So, instead of trying to bring something to the black hole, we do the opposite. We bring the black hole to us.
Now, now, I know what you're saying. You don't move a black hole. And you're right. But think - We can create wormholes, right? We've been using them to get from place to place for a century now.
Only one problem. The wormholes only work one way. Generate one, put something in it, and it pops out the other end. What if I told you we found a way to reverse that? The generator, instead of creating the entrance, creates the exit? We've found a way - And while the maths of it are beyond me, Doctor Selene here will be more than happy to explain when I'm done.
So, we set up a generator and target it below the black hole's surface. The wormhole opens, and the black hole's own gravity pushes mass through. But, very quickly, that mass will be the entire black hole. At that point, we've only managed to move the black hole, and right on top of ourselves. Bad, right?
The solution is fairly obvious. Using a network of a few, let's say four, dozen generators spread across just as many systems, we use a quantum clock to synchronize them. They all open their wormholes at the same time, siphon off some of the black hole's mass, and close the wormholes before too much comes through. At that point, we have loads of what Doctor Selene calls exotic materials floating around ready to be harvested. Scoop them up, put them on some novelty keychains, and sell them in a gift shop, right? Oh, yes, the scientists will get their turn too.
It'd take a few cycles of this to completely remove the black hole, maybe a few months, but think of the rewards! Beta Three-Thirteen is sitting right in the middle of what would be a prime route between Caldari and Melantis. We'd see huge amounts of traffic between the two systems if we got rid of it! And I'm told the materials we'd be able to gain from the hole would be usable in dozens of industries!
We can do this, and we will do this. Now, I'll leave you Doctor Selene to answer the more technical questions.
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