{"id":116569,"date":"2020-12-02T17:25:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/physicists-observe-trippy-vortex-rings-in-a-magnetic-material-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2020-12-02T17:25:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T01:25:32","slug":"physicists-observe-trippy-vortex-rings-in-a-magnetic-material-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/physicists-observe-trippy-vortex-rings-in-a-magnetic-material-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Observe Trippy \u2018Vortex Rings\u2019 in a Magnetic Material For The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-observe-trippy-vortex-rings-in-a-magnetic-material-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wherever you have fluid, there you can also find vortex rings.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists have found vortex rings somewhere fascinating \u2014 inside a tiny pillar made of a magnetic material, the gadolinium-cobalt <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Intermetallic\">intermetallic compound<\/a> GdCo<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve seen smoke rings, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/incredible-video-shows-jellyfish-get-sucked-into-bubble-ring\">bubble rings<\/a> under water, you\u2019ve seen vortex rings: doughnut-shaped vortices that form when fluid flows back on itself after being forced through a hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wherever you have fluid, there you can also find vortex rings. Now, scientists have found vortex rings somewhere fascinating \u2014 inside a tiny pillar made of a magnetic material, the gadolinium-cobalt intermetallic compound GdCo2. If you\u2019ve seen smoke rings, or bubble rings under water, you\u2019ve seen vortex rings: doughnut-shaped vortices that form when fluid flows [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116569","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=116569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}