Lab Experiment Confirms 50-Year-Old Black Hole Energy Theory

Half a century after Roger Penrose envisioned energy being drawn from the twisted space surrounding a spinning black hole, physicists at the City University of New York have brought that vision down from the cosmos and into a laboratory. Using a ring of electronic resonators engineered to mimic ultrafast rotation without any physical movement, they demonstrated that waves can enter a synthetic spinning system and emerge carrying more energy than they brought — the Penrose-Zeldovich process, proven at last. It is a reminder that the universe's most extreme secrets are not always locked behind d