{"id":161738,"date":"2023-04-08T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/physicists-simulated-a-black-hole-in-the-lab-and-then-it-started-to-glow"},"modified":"2023-04-08T10:22:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T15:22:17","slug":"physicists-simulated-a-black-hole-in-the-lab-and-then-it-started-to-glow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/physicists-simulated-a-black-hole-in-the-lab-and-then-it-started-to-glow","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Simulated a Black Hole in The Lab, And Then It Started to Glow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-simulated-a-black-hole-in-the-lab-and-then-it-started-to-glow2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A synthetic analog of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a> could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>Using a chain of atoms in single-file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists observed the equivalent of what we call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/hawking-radiation\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Hawking radiation<\/a> \u2013 particles born from disturbances in the quantum fluctuations caused by the black hole\u2019s break in spacetime.<\/p>\n<p>This, they say, could help resolve the tension between two currently irreconcilable frameworks for describing the Universe: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/general-relativity\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">general theory of relativity<\/a>, which describes the behavior of gravity as a continuous field known as spacetime; and quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of discrete particles using the mathematics of probability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A synthetic analog of a black hole could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing. Using a chain of atoms in single-file to simulate the event horizon of a black hole, a team of physicists observed the equivalent of what we call Hawking radiation \u2013 particles [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161738","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}