Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Can anyone make a black hole in a laboratory? – ...

Researchers have recreated the physics of extracting energy from a spinning black hole using a stationary device that produces synthetic ultrafast rotation. The achievement transforms a long-standing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (remotevfx/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The one thing we all 'know' about black holes is that nothing escapes their ineluctable grasp ...

From curved space to curved optics: a tabletop geometry that traps light like a black hole—and turns it into a laser. Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have successfully recreated key features of ...

A black hole is not sitting inside a lab in Manhattan, but some of its strangest physics just helped shape a tabletop experiment there. For decades, physicists have wondered whether waves could steal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic rendering of Penrose super-radiance: electromagnetic waves with selected rotation patterns are amplified as they interact ...