{"id":111611,"date":"2020-08-19T15:29:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-worlds-most-powerful-x-ray-laser-just-gave-rise-to-a-molecular-black-hole"},"modified":"2020-08-19T15:29:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T22:29:19","slug":"the-worlds-most-powerful-x-ray-laser-just-gave-rise-to-a-molecular-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-worlds-most-powerful-x-ray-laser-just-gave-rise-to-a-molecular-black-hole","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Just Gave Rise to a \u2018Molecular Black Hole\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-worlds-most-powerful-x-ray-laser-just-gave-rise-to-a-molecular-black-hole2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Imagine you took all sunlight that hits our planet at any given moment, and focussed it on one (unfortunate) piece of Earth the size of a thumbnail. Now times that blistering intensity <a href=\"https:\/\/www6.slac.stanford.edu\/news\/2017-05-31-world%E2%80%99s-most-powerful-x-ray-laser-beam-creates-%E2%80%98molecular-black-hole%E2%80%99.aspx\">by 100<\/a>, and you\u2019re beginning to understand the insanity of the world\u2019s most powerful X-ray laser.<\/p>\n<p>In a surprise result, scientists have focussed the full intensity of this laser onto a single molecule, and the aftermath has given rise to a phenomenon no one\u2019s ever seen before \u2014 a molecular \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black hole\">black hole<\/a>\u2019, which consumes anything in its path.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly weren\u2019t expecting this from previous measurements,\u201d one of the team, Sebastien Boutet from the US Department of Energy\u2019s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/05\/31\/x-ray-laser-molecular-black-hole\/#ouna6y_2tSq9\">told Mashable.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 Imagine you took all sunlight that hits our planet at any given moment, and focussed it on one (unfortunate) piece of Earth the size of a thumbnail. Now times that blistering intensity by 100, and you\u2019re beginning to understand the insanity of the world\u2019s most powerful X-ray laser. In a surprise result, scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}