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First-ever 'Black Hole Bomb' Analogue

May 6 , 2025 17 hrs 0 min 19 0
  • Researchers have created the first laboratory analogue of the 'black hole bomb'.
  • It consists of a rotating aluminium cylinder, placed inside the layers of coils that generate magnetic fields that rotate around it, at controllable speeds.
  • In 1972, physicists William Press and Saul Teukolsky has described a theoretical phenomenon called a black hole bomb.
  • In 1969, the British mathematical physicist and Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose proposed a way to extract energy from a rotating black hole.
  • It became known as black hole super radiance.

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