{"id":191997,"date":"2024-06-28T12:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T17:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/quantum-effects-forbid-the-formation-of-black-holes-from-high-concentrations-of-intense-light-say-physicists"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T17:22:22","slug":"quantum-effects-forbid-the-formation-of-black-holes-from-high-concentrations-of-intense-light-say-physicists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/quantum-effects-forbid-the-formation-of-black-holes-from-high-concentrations-of-intense-light-say-physicists","title":{"rendered":"Quantum effects forbid the formation of black holes from high concentrations of intense light, say physicists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-effects-forbid-the-formation-of-black-holes-from-high-concentrations-of-intense-light-say-physicists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the last seven decades, astrophysicists have theorized the existence of \u201ckugelblitze,\u201d black holes caused by extremely high concentrations of light.<\/p>\n<p>These special black holes, they speculated, might be linked to astronomical phenomena such as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/dark+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">dark matter<\/a>, and have even been suggested as the power source of hypothetical spaceship engines in the far future.<\/p>\n<p>However, new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/theoretical+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">theoretical physics<\/a> research by a team of researchers at the University of Waterloo and Universidad Complutense de Madrid demonstrates that kugelblitze are impossible in our current universe. Their research, titled \u201cNo black holes from <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a>,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2405.02389\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server and is forthcoming in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last seven decades, astrophysicists have theorized the existence of \u201ckugelblitze,\u201d black holes caused by extremely high concentrations of light. These special black holes, they speculated, might be linked to astronomical phenomena such as dark matter, and have even been suggested as the power source of hypothetical spaceship engines in the far future. However, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191997","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=191997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}