Space Weapons: Physicists for the first time in history created a black hole bomb what is it

Although this bomb can explode, it is definitely not a weapon, but a way to better understand the physics of black holes that absorb matter and contain singularity, where the laws of physics are violated. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel.

Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Scientists have created the first in the history of a black hole bomb, which is a theoretical phenomenon when energy is exacerbated by a black hole and admires the surrounding reflectors until the explosion occurs. But scientists have created a bomb without a real black hole and it is just a safe model. But it will help improve the understanding of black holes.

The idea of ​​extraction of energy from the black hole for the first time in 1969 was proposed by physicist Roger Penrose. He suggested that the particle that flies very close to the rotating black hole would receive energy because of the effect of the general theory of relativity, when the black hole pulls and accelerates the space-time around it.

In 1971, the physicist Jacob Zeldovich realized that such a process can occur in other cases, for example, when light moves around a rapidly rotating metal cylinder. He estimated that this effect of radiation should occur as the cylinder rotates at the same speed as light, but it is incredibly fast.

Zeldovich also suggested that, having surrounded the rotating cylinder, a cylindrical mirror, increased energy can be reflected and accumulated in a positive feedback until the energy is either thrown away or the explosion. If you apply this idea to black holes, you can create a black hole bomb that would produce as much energy as it is released during the supernova explosion when a massive star dies.

In this case, this process can work even without an external source of energy, as the black hole will enhance tiny electromagnetic vibrations in space vacuum and produce energy. All this was only a theory, but now physicists have found a way to implement it with a rotating cylinder and magnetic fields.

They created an experimental installation, which consists of a rotating aluminum cylinder, which rotates and works from an electric motor, surrounded by three layers of metal coils, which create a magnetic field, which also rotates around the cylinder at a similar speed. In this installation, the coil acts as a mirror, and the magnetic field - as light, and, as Zeldovich predicted, it creates even more magnetic field coming from the cylinder.

Then physicists found out that even without coils that create an external magnetic field from the beginning, the installation will still create a signal that flee in the surrounding coils, as in the theoretical example of a black hole without an external energy source. Scientists say the creation of a black hole bomb suggests that such processes really occur around real black holes.

The new achievement of physicists can help you understand how real black holes give energy to particles around them. This can help check the theoretical ideas about the particles, such as a field that creates dark matter. According to physicists, if there are new fields, you can see gravitational waves that produce particles around black holes, or you can see how black holes slow down the rotation because they give their energy to these new particles.