{"id":75938,"date":"2026-07-26T05:05:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/physicists-recreated-the-way-a-spinning-black-hole-leaks-energy-on-a-tabletop\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T05:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T05:05:38","slug":"physicists-recreated-the-way-a-spinning-black-hole-leaks-energy-on-a-tabletop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowdfundjunction.com\/blog\/physicists-recreated-the-way-a-spinning-black-hole-leaks-energy-on-a-tabletop\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Recreated the Way a Spinning Black Hole Leaks Energy, on a Tabletop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News )<\/b><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"@container mb-[25px] rounded-sm overflow-clip py-0.5 pr-0.5 pl-2.5 bg-success-100\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col gap-m overflow-clip rounded-[6px] !bg-success-10 p-3 @[420px]:p-m\">\n<h2 class=\"m-0 flex items-center gap-s text-[19px] !text-[#1c1c1c] md:text-[20px]\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"16\" height=\"10\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 10\" fill=\"none\" class=\"shrink-0 text-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M1 1.5h14\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><path d=\"M1 8.5h10\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"2.5\" stroke-linecap=\"round\"\/><\/svg><span>Key Takeaways<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"m-0 flex list-none flex-col gap-m pl-0\">\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">CUNY ASRC achieved 7.8 dB wave gain in a stationary circuit, validating 1969 superradiance theory.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Nature\u2019s July 8, 2026, study could expand broadband amplification for quantum and wave technologies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"m-0 flex items-start gap-s !text-[#434248]\"><span class=\"mt-2 size-2 shrink-0 rounded-full bg-success-100\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><span class=\"text-body\">Andrea Al\u00f9 said DoD and NSF-backed research opens new paths for synthetic wave systems beyond 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the CUNY Graduate Center\u2019s Advanced Science Research Center, physicists built a ring-shaped network of electronic resonators that never physically spins, yet still coaxes electromagnetic waves into stealing energy from it. By rapidly modulating the circuit in a carefully timed sequence, the team created a traveling pattern that makes the system look like ultrafast rotation to the waves, reproducing the decades-old Penrose Zel\u2019dovich superradiance idea in a working lab setup. The result was measurable amplification, 7.8 dB of gain, without any moving parts. The work, published in Nature on July 8, 2026, reframes what used to require literal spinning cylinders, disks, or vortices into something that fits on a tabletop.<\/p>\n<p>If you spend your days tracking chips, AI models, and Big Tech\u2019s next move, it is easy to forget that some of the most consequential \u201ctech\u201d is still happening at a lab bench. This month, a team in New York City turned a half-century-old black hole idea into a working device, the kind of result that quietly reshapes what engineers think is possible.<\/p>\n<h2>A black hole theory brought to the lab<\/h2>\n<p>Researchers at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the CUNY Graduate Center showed that a stationary tabletop circuit can mimic the energy-extraction physics long associated with rotating black holes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/07\/260711010120.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ScienceDaily\u2019s July 2026 release<\/a> framed it plainly: a lab setup recreated the mechanics of pulling energy from rotation, without needing anything to physically spin.<\/p>\n<p>The work was published in Nature on July 8, 2026, under the title \u201cObservation of Floquet rotational super-radiance,\u201d by Hadiseh Nasari, Hady Moussa, Yoshiaki Kasahara, Arno Thielens and Andrea Al\u00f9. For anyone who files \u201castrophysics\u201d in a different mental drawer than \u201celectronics,\u201d that publication venue is a signal: this is fundamental physics with real hardware implications.<\/p>\n<h2>Synthetic ultrafast rotation, no moving parts<\/h2>\n<p>The core trick is a ring-shaped network of electronic resonators. By rapidly modulating resonator properties in a carefully timed sequence, the team created a traveling pattern around the ring so electromagnetic waves interacted as if the system were rotating at ultrafast speed, per <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-synthetic-rotation-black-hole-energy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">synthetic rotation<\/a> descriptions of the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>That \u201cas if\u201d turned into a measurable win: the circuit delivered 7.8 dB of gain, meaning the waves came out amplified, even though the device never moved. TechTimes highlighted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techtimes.com\/articles\/320247\/20260712\/physicists-replicate-black-hole-energy-extraction-using-synthetic-rotation.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7.8 dB result<\/a>, a concrete number that makes the concept feel less like a thought experiment and more like an engineering knob.<\/p>\n<h2>Decades of theory, now validated<\/h2>\n<p>The lineage runs back to Roger Penrose\u2019s 1969 proposal: inside a rotating black hole\u2019s ergosphere, a particle could split so that one piece falls in while the other escapes with more energy than the original. Physicist Yakov Zel\u2019dovich later extended the idea to waves, predicting that a wave interacting with a sufficiently fast rotating object could extract energy and become amplified, an effect often called rotational superradiance.<\/p>\n<p>Co-lead author Hady Moussa put the lab version in one clean sentence: \u201cWaves with the appropriate rotational characteristics extracted energy from the system and became amplified, reproducing the essential physics of the Penrose-Zel\u2019dovich process.\u201d And unlike earlier demonstrations using rotating water vortices (2017), rotating acoustic disks (2020), or rotating metallic cylinders (2024), this one avoided spinning matter entirely.<\/p>\n<h2>Why tech people should care<\/h2>\n<p>Principal investigator Andrea Al\u00f9, Distinguished Professor and Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, described the approach as \u201ca new method of wave-matter interaction\u201d that yields \u201cbroadband selective amplification.\u201d Lead author Hadiseh Nasari said it \u201cmoves ideas about extreme rotational dynamics from theory to practice,\u201d positioning the setup as a flexible platform for work across astrophysics, wave physics, and quantum science.<\/p>\n<p>The funding also hints at downstream interest: the research was supported by the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Simons Foundation. If a stationary circuit can convincingly impersonate an extreme rotating environment, what other \u201cimpossible\u201d dynamics might engineers start synthesizing next?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/physicists-recreated-the-way-a-spinning-black-hole-leaks-energy-on-a-tabletop-49201\/\">Source link <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Originally posted on : Bitcoin News ) Key Takeaways CUNY ASRC achieved 7.8 dB wave gain in a stationary circuit, validating 1969 superradiance theory. Nature\u2019s July 8, 2026, study could expand broadband amplification for quantum and wave technologies. Andrea Al\u00f9 said DoD and NSF-backed research opens new paths for synthetic wave systems beyond 2026. 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