In a groundbreaking experiment, physicists have successfully created the first-ever black hole bomb in a laboratory setting. This concept, which was first proposed in 1969 by the renowned physicist ...

Physicists have built the first ever black hole bomb, a long-theorised phenomenon where energy is boosted by a black hole and trapped by surrounding mirrors until an explosion occurs. Thankfully, this ...

When British physicist Roger Penrose suggested in 1969 that energy could be pulled from a rotating black hole, it sparked a half-century of exploration. Penrose proposed that inside the ergosphere—the ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

A bomb from a black hole would probably be the most destructive weapon in the universe. Hypothetically, it could be created by wrapping one of these cosmic monsters in mirrors and waiting for it to go ...