Physicists create 'black hole bomb' for first time on Earth, validating decades-old theory

Physicists create 'black hole bomb' for first time on Earth, validating decades-old theory

Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more than 50 years ago.

Scientists Say They've Built a "Black Hole Bomb"

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb" — an ominous-sounding concept that dates back to the late 1960s, but that serves as little more than a harmless proof of concept. As New Scientist reports, the idea is to boost energy with a black hole, then trap it with mirrors until you get an explosion. However, what the team created in a lab is a harmless test, without a real black hole that could suck the planet into oblivion. An…

Scientists Simulate First-Ever 'Black Hole Bomb' Laboratory Analog

They Harnessed Energy into a 'Black Hole' in the Lab: Here's Why This Experiment is Groundbreaking

Extract from the energy of a cosmic monster? The story begins in 1969 with Roger Penrose, future Nobel Prize, which imagines a theoretical process called since … The Penrose process. In this idea, an object sent to the ergosphere – the region just outside the horizon of a black hole in rotation – could be split. A part would fall into the black hole with negative energy, and the other would come out with more energy than it had at the start. Res…