Description
This year we celebrate the 50 years of the highly influential paper ``Floating Orbits, Superradiant Scattering and the Black-hole Bomb'' by William Press and Saul Teukolsky [Nature 238, 211-212 (1972)]. In this talk I will briefly review the fascinating ideas put forward in this paper and highlight the main implications that it had for black hole physics, astrophysics and even particle physics.
