Zel'dovich Effect Confirmed by Physicists

This is a news story, published by MSN, that relates primarily to Roger Penrose news.

Roger Penrose news

For more Roger Penrose news, you can click here:

more Roger Penrose news

physics news

For more physics news, you can click here:

more physics news

MSN news

For more news from MSN, you can click here:

more news from MSN

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best science news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like physics news, you might also like this article about

black holes

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest close black holes news, event horizon news, physics news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

black hole

IFLScience

•

Energy-Stealing Zel’dovich Effect Confirmed Using Electromagnetic Fields 50 Years After Being Proposed

Summary

Nutrition label

80% Informative

A 50-year-old idea about the Zel’dovich effect has been tested by physicists in the lab.

In 1969 , British physicist Roger Penrose suggested that energy could be extracted from black holes by lowering an object into the ergosphere and allowing it to accelerate the object, stealing some of the black hole's energy.

The idea has links to the doppler effect, which can make light appear red or blue depending on how the emitting object is moving relative to us.

To test the idea, the team bounced sound waves off a spinning disc, and listened for a shift in frequency indicating that energy had been gained from the rotation.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful