{"id":128969,"date":"2021-10-14T07:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-black-hole-laser-could-finally-shine-a-light-on-elusive-hawking-radiation"},"modified":"2021-10-14T07:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T14:23:17","slug":"a-black-hole-laser-could-finally-shine-a-light-on-elusive-hawking-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/a-black-hole-laser-could-finally-shine-a-light-on-elusive-hawking-radiation","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Black Hole Laser\u2019 Could Finally Shine a Light on Elusive Hawking Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-black-hole-laser-could-finally-shine-a-light-on-elusive-hawking-radiation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are getting closer to being able to spot <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawking_radiation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hawking radiation<\/a> \u2013 that elusive thermal radiation thought to be produced by a black hole\u2019s event horizon. Just understanding the concept of this radiation is tricky though, let alone finding it.<\/p>\n<p>A new proposal suggests creating a special kind of quantum circuit to act as a \u2018black hole laser\u2019, essentially simulating some of the properties of a black hole. As with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nphys3141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previous studies<\/a>, the idea is that experts can observe and study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hawking-radiation\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hawking radiation\">Hawking radiation<\/a> without actually having to look at any real <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"black holes\">black holes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The basic principle is relatively straightforward. Black holes are objects that warp spacetime so much, not even a wave of light can escape. Swap spacetime for some other material (such as water) and make it flow quickly enough so that waves passing through are too slow to escape, and you\u2019ve got yourself a fairly rudimentary model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are getting closer to being able to spot Hawking radiation \u2013 that elusive thermal radiation thought to be produced by a black hole\u2019s event horizon. Just understanding the concept of this radiation is tricky though, let alone finding it. A new proposal suggests creating a special kind of quantum circuit to act as a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128969","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=128969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}