The Penrose process is a theoretical method to extract energy from the rotation of a spinning black hole, named after mathematician Roger Penrose who first proposed it in 1969.
Theoretically addresses the issue of harnessing enormous amounts of energy from spinning black holes, which could be an ultimate resource for advanced civilisations in distant futures.
In this process, matter is dropped into the ergosphere (the region around a rotating black hole where rotational time dilation effects become significant) and is split. The fragments that escape carry away some of the black hole's spin energy due to conservation laws.
Not applicable at current technological and physical understanding levels; purely theoretical at this stage.
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