  We explore the non-BPS analog of `AdS bubbles', which are regular spherically
symmetric 1/2 BPS geometries in type IIB supergravity. They have regular
horizons and can be thought of as bubbling generalizations of non-extremal AdS
black hole solutions in five-dimensional gauged supergravity. Due to the
appearance of the Heun equation even at the linearized level, various
approximation and numerical methods are needed in order to extract information
about this system. We study how the vacuum expectation value and mass of a
particular dimension two chiral primary operator depend on the temperature and
chemical potential of the thermal Yang-Mills theory. In addition, the mass of
the bubbling AdS black holes is computed. As is shown numerically, there are
also non-BPS solitonic bubbles which are completely regular and arise from
continuous deformations of BPS AdS bubbles.
