Warp drives have been a dream of sci-fi nerds and theoretical physicists alike for decades now. Able to transport ship and crew vast distances across space without subjecting those onboard to the ravages of time would change the way we think about space travel. It could truly take our species interstellar.

Recently, a think tank called Applied Physics—based in New York and focused on understanding and eventually creating a warp drive—got one step closer to making that dream a reality by creating an in-lab “black hole” primarily out of sound waves and glycerin.

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