{"id":191679,"date":"2024-06-23T22:23:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T03:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/can-black-holes-be-created-from-pure-light-new-paper-challenges-theory"},"modified":"2024-06-23T22:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T03:23:48","slug":"can-black-holes-be-created-from-pure-light-new-paper-challenges-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/can-black-holes-be-created-from-pure-light-new-paper-challenges-theory","title":{"rendered":"Can Black Holes Be Created From Pure Light? New Paper Challenges Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-black-holes-be-created-from-pure-light-new-paper-challenges-theory3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Squeeze enough stuff into one spot, space-time itself will pucker up in a sweet cosmic kiss known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As far as Einstein\u2019s sums are concerned, that \u2018stuff\u2019 includes the massless glow of electromagnetic radiation. Given E = mc<sup>2<\/sup>, which describes the equivalence between mass and energy, the energy of light itself should \u2013 in theory \u2013 be capable of creating a black hole if enough of it is concentrated in one spot.<\/p>\n<p>Before you crack out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/its-confirmed-laser-fusion-experiment-hit-a-critical-milestone-in-power-generation\">big-gun lasers<\/a> and punch some holes into the Universe\u2019s floorboards, there\u2019s one thing researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain and the University of Waterloo in Canada want you to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Squeeze enough stuff into one spot, space-time itself will pucker up in a sweet cosmic kiss known as a black hole. As far as Einstein\u2019s sums are concerned, that \u2018stuff\u2019 includes the massless glow of electromagnetic radiation. Given E = mc2, which describes the equivalence between mass and energy, the energy of light itself should [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}