Scientists created the first “black hole bomb” in the laboratory – A simulator based on a theoretical model developed by physicists in the 1970s that enables the study of some properties of these mysterious regions of space .
The object is built with rotating aluminum cylinders placed inside coils organized in layers. From the moment they rotate, they are generated generate magnetic fields, simulating the gravitational effect of black holes.
A team of researchers Led by researcher Marion Cromb of the University of Southampton, UK, he was able to simulate the rotational energy that interferes with the particles near the magnetic fields of these regions of space with the ideas proposed in 1971 in the theory of physicist Roger Penrose.
Even though it is not possible to replicate the gravitational effect of black holes in the laboratory, with this experiment scientists managed to understand that the energy is amplified when the cylinder rotates faster and in the same direction as the magnetic field and becomes unstable when the cylinder rotates more slowly than the magnetic field – as is that of holes.
As much as the experiment does not bring conclusions at the moment, it can represent a step towards a better understanding of the physics of gravitational objects more extreme in the universe.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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