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Wouldn’t it be cool to have a little black hole in your office? You know, maybe as a trash bin. Or to move around the furniture. Or just as a kind of nerdy gimmick. Why can we not make black holes? Or can we? If we could, what could we do with them? And what’s a black hole laser? That’s what we’ll talk about today.

The Press and Teukolsky paper about the black hole bomb is here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/238211a0

The paper about black hole lasers by Corey and Jacobson is here:
https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract...

The paper about the observation of black hole lasing in an analogue black hole is here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys...

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0:00 Intro
0:38 Why is making black holes difficult?
2:41 What would it take to make a black hole?
4:55 What could we do with a black hole?
7:07 Black hole bombs
8:31 Black hole lasers
11:21 Sponsor Message