{"id":185626,"date":"2024-03-21T12:28:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/first-of-its-kind-quantum-tornado-achieves-record-breaking-black-hole-mimicry"},"modified":"2024-03-21T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T17:28:48","slug":"first-of-its-kind-quantum-tornado-achieves-record-breaking-black-hole-mimicry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/first-of-its-kind-quantum-tornado-achieves-record-breaking-black-hole-mimicry","title":{"rendered":"First-of-Its-Kind \u2018Quantum Tornado\u2019 Achieves Record-Breaking Black Hole Mimicry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-of-its-kind-quantum-tornado-achieves-record-breaking-black-hole-mimicry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A superfluid vortex controlled in a lab is helping physicists learn more about the behavior of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\">black holes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A whirlpool generated in helium cooled to just a fraction above absolute zero mimics the gravitational environment of these objects to such high precision that it\u2019s giving unprecedented insight into how they drag and warp the space-time around them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing superfluid helium has allowed us to study tiny surface waves in greater detail and accuracy than with our previous experiments in water,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1038009\">explains physicist Patrik \u0160van\u010dara<\/a> of the University of Nottingham in the UK, who led the research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A superfluid vortex controlled in a lab is helping physicists learn more about the behavior of black holes. A whirlpool generated in helium cooled to just a fraction above absolute zero mimics the gravitational environment of these objects to such high precision that it\u2019s giving unprecedented insight into how they drag and warp the space-time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185626","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}