Chinese Scientist, Tie Jun Cui & Qiang Cheng, Create Black Hole That Can Suck Up Microwaves, New Way To Get Solar Energy Hopefully.

The first artificial man-made black hole was made, and it is able to suck up microwaves in the air. It was created by 2 scientist, Tie Jun Cui and Qiang Cheng, in China. Although it might seem like a dumb idea to create a blackhole in the first place. If you could make a black hole that could contain light power, then you could have a great way to obtain solar energy!

The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity.

A theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed in a paper published earlier this year by Evgenii Narimanov and Alexander Kildishev of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Their idea was to mimic the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards.

Now Tie Jun Cui and Qiang Cheng at the Southeast University in Nanjing, China, have turned Narimanov and Kildishev’s theory into practice, and built a “black hole” for microwave frequencies. It is made of 60 annular strips of so-called “meta-materials”, which have previously been used to make invisibility cloaks.

Via: NWS