{"id":241009,"date":"2026-07-16T12:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/smaller-than-the-tiniest-scale-in-nature-physicists-made-a-black-hole-out-of-light-and-used-it-to-test-stephen-hawkings-elusive-radiation-theory"},"modified":"2026-07-16T12:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:10:32","slug":"smaller-than-the-tiniest-scale-in-nature-physicists-made-a-black-hole-out-of-light-and-used-it-to-test-stephen-hawkings-elusive-radiation-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/smaller-than-the-tiniest-scale-in-nature-physicists-made-a-black-hole-out-of-light-and-used-it-to-test-stephen-hawkings-elusive-radiation-theory","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Smaller than the tiniest scale in nature\u2019: Physicists made a black hole out of light and used it to test Stephen Hawking\u2019s elusive radiation theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/smaller-than-the-tiniest-scale-in-nature-physicists-made-a-black-hole-out-of-light-and-used-it-to-test-stephen-hawkings-elusive-radiation-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists made a breakthrough discovery about the physics of Hawking radiation by making a miniature black hole out of light in the laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241009","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}