Astronomy:Optical black hole
An optical black hole is a phenomenon in which slow light is passed through a Bose–Einstein condensate that is itself spinning faster than the local speed of light within to create a vortex capable of trapping the light behind an event horizon just as a gravitational black hole would.[1] Unlike other black hole analogs such as a sonic black hole in a Bose–Einstein condensate, a slow light black hole analog is not expected to mimic the quantum effects of a black hole, and thus not emit Hawking radiation. It does, however, mimic the classical properties of a gravitational black hole, making it potentially useful in studying other properties of black holes.[2] More recently, some physicists have developed a fiber optic based system which they believe will emit Hawking radiation.[3]
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Notes
- ↑ Saswato, Das (2008). "Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole Using Optical Fiber". Aerospace. IEEE Spectrum. https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/physicists-make-artificial-black-hole-using-optical-fiber.
- ↑ Unruh, W.G.; Schützhold, R. (2003). "On Slow Light as a Black Hole Analogue". Physical Review D 68 (2): 024008. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.68.024008. Bibcode: 2003PhRvD..68b4008U.
- ↑ Philbin, Thomas G.; Kuklewicz, Chris; Robertson, Scott; Hill, Stephen; König, Friedrich; Leonhardt, Ulf (2008). "Fiber-optical analog of the event horizon". Science 319 (5868): 1367–1370. doi:10.1126/science.1153625. PMID 18323448. Bibcode: 2008Sci...319.1367P.
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