{"data":{"id":2000,"lang":"en","title":"CUNY Physicists Recreate Black Hole Energy Extraction Using a Stationary Lab Device","summary":"CUNY physicists built a stationary ring of electronic resonators that recreates the black hole energy-extraction physics Roger Penrose theorized 50 years ago.","category":"science","category_label":"Science","published_at":"2026-07-13T18:01:58Z","updated_at":"2026-07-13T18:01:58Z","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/article/2000-cuny-physicists-recreate-black-hole-energy-extraction-using-a-stationary-lab","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2000?lang=en","markdown_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2000.md?lang=en","image_url":"https://www.sciencedaily.com/images/1920/penrose-super-radiance-artwork.webp","word_count":179,"reading_time_minutes":1,"sources":[{"url":"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260711010120.htm","domain":"sciencedaily.com"}],"translation":{"lang":"cs","id":2073,"title":"Fyzici z CUNY v laboratoři napodobili extrakci energie z černé díry pomocí nepohyblivého zařízení","url":"https://techtools.cz/tools/news/clanek/2073-fyzici-z-cuny-v-laboratori-napodobili-extrakci-energie-z-cerne-diry-pomoci","api_url":"https://techtools.cz/news-api/v1/articles/2073?lang=cs"},"content":"Physicists at the CUNY Graduate Center's Advanced Science Research Center have recreated the energy-extraction physics of a spinning black hole using a stationary lab device, according to a study published in Nature on July 11, 2026. Led by Andrea Alù with postdoctoral researcher Hadiseh Nasari and former PhD student Hady Moussa, the team built a ring of electronic resonators whose properties were rapidly and synchronously adjusted, generating a traveling pattern that made electromagnetic waves behave as if encountering an object spinning at extreme speed — without any physical movement.\n\nThe experiment reproduces the Penrose-Zel'dovich process, a mechanism physicist Roger Penrose proposed more than 50 years ago for extracting energy from a black hole's ergosphere. Waves with the right rotational properties were amplified, pulling energy out of the synthetic rotation just as theory predicted for particles near a real black hole.\n\n\"Our approach facilitates a new method of wave-matter interaction in which waves with selected rotational properties extract energy from synthetic time-engineered rotation,\" Alù said. The team says the platform could open new directions in optics, wireless communications and quantum technologies."}}