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

  1. ↑ Saswato, Das. "Physicists Make Artificial Black Hole Using Optical Fiber". Aerospace. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
  2. ↑ Unruh, W.G.; Schützhold, R. (2003). "On Slow Light as a Black Hole Analogue". Physical Review D 68 (2): 024008. arXiv:gr-qc/0303028.
  3. ↑ 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. arXiv:0711.4796.
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