Physicists create 'black hole bomb' for first time on Earth, validating decades-old theory

An illustration of a black hole with light erupting from it.

Researchers have created a "black hole bomb" in the lab for the first time.

In 1972, physicists William Press and Saul Teukolsky described a theoretical phenomenon called a black hole bomb, in which mirrors enclose, reflect and exponentially amplify waves emanating from a rotating black hole.