Physicist creates lab-sized 'black hole'
August 27, 2016  02:34
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Black holes swallow up everything, and nothing escapes. This property, the most iconic characteristic of these mysterious space phenomena, had its first major challenge this week when Techonion professor Jeff Steinhauer posted the results of an experiment. He simulated a black hole in the lab.

In his experiment, the Israeli physicist created a simulated "black hole" capable of sucking in sound. 

To do this, Stenhauer shot a laser composed of rubidium atoms through an environment cooled to almost absolute zero. 

The atoms were moving faster than the speed of sound, making it difficult for sound to make its way through the stream.

Steinhauer's paper is yet to be published, and is up on the pre-publishing platform arXiv.org right now for peer review. The initial reactions have been both positive and skeptical.

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