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Did you know you can gently spin down a black hole if you encapsulate it with mirrors? Apparently, i...

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Did you know you can gently spin down a black hole if you encapsulate it with mirrors? Apparently, it’s called a Black Hole Bomb. That’s because photons (of the right frequency) can be amplified to extract the rotational energy. Penrose had this basic idea in 1971. It’s a

Did you know you can gently spin down a black hole if you encapsulate it with mirrors? Apparently, it’s called a Black Hole Bomb. That’s because photons (of the right frequency) can be amplified to extract the rotational energy. Penrose had this basic idea in 1971. It’s a