Black hole as a storage device?
I'm writing a sci-fi story, and there is a giant autonomous computer planet that constantly gathers resources from around the universe using drones. It stores a super weapon at the core of the planet, inside a black hole that is also used as a main power source for the planet, so as to keep the whole device much more compact and unnoticeable. I wasn't sure how the weapon could be pulled back out, and I was thinking perhaps magnets? I haven't really heard about magnetic fields being affected by gravity, and the magnets power could be supplied by the infinite power that the black hole produces. Could this work in any scenario?
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If your weapon is mass/energy then yep you are in the right territory. If it's matter in a particular configuration (a complex piece that took hundreds of thousands of work-hours to make) you may be out of luck.
Black-holes can be used as energy storage, using magnetic fields to spin them up and releasing energy through electromagnetic induction as they spin-down.
Trouble is, as far as I know, the polar discharges of such a device - well, no one's figured out how to aim them whilst preventing the discharge from the pole opposite to the target propelling the people who aim the device fast in the opposite direction. Great for Star-ship propulsion, not so good in a fight - unless the strategy is - "Hit and getaway fast" - it could work then.
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