The newborn black hole in GRB 191014C manifests that is alive

The popular view that BHs (BH) are dark objects, a sink of energy rather than an energy source, arises from three assumptions, that they are (i) in vacuum, (ii) in an asymptotically flat space-time, and (iii) stationary. As a result, despite theoretical efforts, the search for an efficient mechanism to extract the energy from a BH, able to power the most energetic astrophysical sources, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs), has been unsuccessful for decades. Here we show that an extremely efficient electrodynamical process of BH energy extraction occurs in the "inner engine", violating the assumptions (i)-(iii), composed of a rotating BH in a background of very-low-density ionized plasma and a test, ordered magnetic field, aligned and parallel with the rotation axis. It operates in a sequence of "quantized" steps, each emitting a "blackholic quantum", initially of energy $10^{37}$ erg, over a timescale of $10^{-14}$ s, leading to GeV and TeV photons with luminosities of $10^{51}$ erg s$^{-1}$. Every event takes away only $10^{-16}$ of the extractable energy of the BH, allowing the "inner engine" to operate for thousands of years or more. The blackholic quantum of energy, with such a characteristic short timescale, is emitted in the entire Universe in view of the ubiquitous and homogeneous cosmological presence of GRBs. This suggests the intriguing possibility that, rather than representing the end of life, BHs may have a relevant role in the evolution of life in our Universe.