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Physicists create a black hole bomb for the first time

https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/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.

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Mattia Cesaro
Reviewed on 14 Jun 2025
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The article is well written, explains clearly the superradiance and the Zel'dovich effect and is precise in specifying that the work has not been peer-reviewed yet. The references are also provided. However, the title is too sensationalist, the system is not a physical black hole, but only an analog system (as pointed out only at the end), and the experiment shows nothing more than the universality of such effects.

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