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Scientists Build First-Ever 'Black Hole Bomb' Analog
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Posted on 05/03/2025 3:42:54 PM PDT by algore

Researchers have created the first laboratory analog of the 'black hole bomb', a theoretical concept developed by physicists in the 1970s.

If there's one thing black holes are known for, it's their insatiable, inescapable gravity. Stuff goes into a black hole.

From beyond the event horizon, this is, as far as we know, true. But from the space around a black hole, you might be able to get something. As Roger Penrose proposed in 1971, the powerful rotational energy of a spinning black hole could be used to amplify the energy of nearby particles.

Then, physicist Yakov Zel'Dovich figured out that you didn't need a black hole to see this phenomenon in action. An axially symmetrical body rotating in a resonance chamber, he figured, could produce the same energy transfer and amplification, albeit on a much smaller scale.

Later work by other physicists found that, if you enclose the entire apparatus in a mirror, a positive feedback loop is generated, amplifying the energy until it explodes from the system.

This concept was named the black hole bomb, and a team of physicists led by Marion Cromb of the University of Southampton in the UK now claim to have brought it to life. A paper describing their experiment has been uploaded to preprint server arXiv.

When they ran the experiment, they found that, when the cylinder is rotating faster than, and in the same direction as, the magnetic field, the magnetic field is amplified, compared to when there is no cylinder. When the cylinder rotates more slowly than the magnetic field, however, the magnetic field is dampened.

This is a really interesting result, because it demonstrates a very clear amplification effect, based on the theories described decades ago.

"The system satisfies the experimental conditions speculated by Zel'dovich

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KEYWORDS: astronomy; blackhole; ohgreat; physics; science; stringtheory

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very cool, and not to me an unexpected result
1 posted on 05/03/2025 3:42:54 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

Is this like The Nude Bomb?


2 posted on 05/03/2025 3:43:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: algore

Energy supplied where they pay YOU?


3 posted on 05/03/2025 3:45:43 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: algore

They recreated the Federal Government?


4 posted on 05/03/2025 3:47:19 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: algore

They recreated the Federal Government?


5 posted on 05/03/2025 3:48:14 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Trump has arrived and it is awesome to have a real President.)
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To: algore
Then, physicist Yakov Zel'Dovich figured out that you didn't need a black hole to see this phenomenon in action. An axially symmetrical body rotating in a resonance chamber, he figured, could produce the same energy transfer and amplification, albeit on a much smaller scale.

That's so obvious. 🤡

6 posted on 05/03/2025 3:51:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: algore

If they “create” a black hole, wouldn’t it just start swallowing up everything around it? Wouldn’t need a bomb.


7 posted on 05/03/2025 3:52:19 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just wait until you hear about The Infinite Improbability Drive and how it was discovered


8 posted on 05/03/2025 3:54:49 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

42.


9 posted on 05/03/2025 3:57:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So a disco mirror ball is really a black hole bomb.


10 posted on 05/03/2025 4:09:05 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: algore

Byte Magazine once had an April Fool’s edition that mentioned something like “black hole diode.”

They later were visited by the government over what they knew.

We’ve been working this, for a while.


11 posted on 05/03/2025 4:12:46 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Roflol.

Thats impossible.


12 posted on 05/03/2025 4:47:10 PM PDT by crz
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To: algore

Will they drop the ‘Black Hole Bomb’ in Mel’s Hole of Art Bell fame?


13 posted on 05/03/2025 6:41:18 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One w!as a cylindrical object)
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To: Getready

Possibly yes, if things go south, in a blink of an eye from the inside out earth will be gone in an instant, including the sun, along with everything else extending several light years out far beyond the orbits of the outer planets of our solar system. We all go into a giant sucking hole real fast. Like turning off a light switch.☺


14 posted on 05/03/2025 6:41:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: algore

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?


15 posted on 05/03/2025 7:01:42 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Larry Lucido

The 70s disco ball worked once in sci-fi.

https://youtu.be/bthGtbgHkGE?si=GJNbhJccOIr-4IVJ&t=909


16 posted on 05/03/2025 7:11:10 PM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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To: 6SJ7; AdmSmith; AFPhys; Arkinsaw; allmost; aristotleman; autumnraine; bajabaja; ...
Thanks algore.


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17 posted on 05/03/2025 7:12:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: BenLurkin

I liked the won that turns enemy soldiers into queers.


18 posted on 05/03/2025 7:29:38 PM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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To: algore

Sounds like a device used by the aliens in “The Arrival,” a mid-90s sci-fi film with Charlie Sheen.


19 posted on 05/03/2025 7:40:57 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: algore

They weaponized my ex-wife?!?


20 posted on 05/03/2025 7:48:30 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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