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How a Whirlpool in a Cup Becomes a Black Hole Bomb ⚡ экспресс

Original: "When is a sloshing vortex an analogue black hole bomb?"
arXiv:2511.05351 · 2025-11-07 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Fluid Dynamics General Relativity
An ordinary vortex in a glass of water turned out to be a miniature copy of a black hole bomb.
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A swirling vortex in a glass of water can become an analogue of a cosmic catastrophe — the black hole bomb. Scientists discovered that with strong swirling, the hollow center of the vortex reflects waves, like the walls around a black hole, causing them to grow avalanche-like. This opens the way to desktop experiments to test gravity theories.

🎯 Tornadoes and waterspouts exactly replicate the structure of black holes: their empty center acts as a trap for waves — once they reflect, an avalanche begins.

Scientists
Stephen HawkingJacob BekensteinAlbert EinsteinFritz ZwickyVera RubinBernhard Riemann
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black hole Water spacetime curvature gravitational waves
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Hawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equationsequivalence principleno-hair theorem
Original: arXiv:2511.05351 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds