{"id":62679,"date":"2025-04-30T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/62679\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:28:08","slug":"56-year-old-theory-is-proven-right-as-black-hole-bomb-explodes-in-a-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/62679\/","title":{"rendered":"56-year-old theory is proven right as ‘Black Hole bomb’ explodes in a lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a huge breakthrough, physicists have created and exploded the first-ever black hole bomb in a laboratory. This comes after it was first proposed by renowned physicist Roger Penrose over 50 years ago. He suggested in 1969 that energy could be pulled from a rotating black hole. The experiment is only a \u201ctoy model,\u201d but scientists involved in it say that it works under the same physical laws as a real black hole.<\/p>\n

Penrose proposed that if energy were injected into the ergosphere\u2014the area just outside a black hole’s event horizon\u2014particles could split. One fragment carrying negative energy could fall into the black hole, while the other could exit, stealing some of the black hole’s energy.<\/p>\n

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“The trick to obtain this result is that the black hole absorbs negative energy, which leads to a reduction in its mass-energy, which translates into a decrease in its rotational speed,” Jorge Pinochet, professor in the physics department of the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educaci\u00f3n, wrote in a recent preprint paper.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“In other words, we have extracted rotational energy from the black hole.”<\/p>\n

The black hole bomb builds on Penrose’s theory, leading to an explosive event, albeit one that is controlled and safe.<\/p>\n

Zel\u2019dovich theorised creating a black hole bomb<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1971, Belarusian physicist Yakov Zel\u2019dovich proposed mimicking the real action of a black hole in a lab. He theorised that a rotating metal cylinder could amplify waves like a real black hole. When a wave hits a fast-spinning cylinder, it could get reflected back stronger and steal a little energy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He also proposed surrounding the cylinder with a mirror for a runaway feedback loop. This mirror set-up would create a black hole bomb.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Researchers at the University of Southampton, led by Hendrik Ulbricht and including Marion Cromb, have achieved what Zel\u2019dovich proposed. The scientists built a rotating system using a simple aluminium cylinder that was similar to a spinning black hole in space. They also made a three-phase magnetic field. It helped create conditions wherein the cylinder\u2019s rotation could amplify electromagnetic waves.<\/p>\n

They added an electromagnetic “mirror” around the cylinder, which triggered something extraordinary. The electromagnetic waves began to grow stronger and stronger, and the runaway growth replicated the scene near a real black hole bomb.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re basically generating a signal from noise, and that is the same thing that happens in the black hole bomb proposal,\u201d said Ulbricht.<\/p>\n

The creation of a black hole bomb on Earth will help scientists learn about the mysterious behaviour of spinning black holes.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a huge breakthrough, physicists have created and exploded the first-ever black hole bomb in a laboratory. This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3845],"tags":[7021,74,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-62679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-black-hole","9":"tag-physics","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}