Scientists Make Black Hole in Fiber Optic Cable: World Doesn’t End

Scientists Make Black Hole in Fiber Optic Cable: World Doesn’t End

The team actually made “completely harmless” black hole and white hole horizons in pairs, at a rate of 80 million a second, by piling up and stretching out ultrashort light pulses in the modified optical fiber. They even detected blue-shifting effects at the white hole horizons, which is predicted by theory.

This one is for Steven P. Watts, if he’s still out there reading our blog.


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