{"id":30360,"date":"2016-09-20T23:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/physicists-made-a-black-hole-in-a-lab-that-may-finally-prove-hawking-radiation-exists"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:26:25","slug":"physicists-made-a-black-hole-in-a-lab-that-may-finally-prove-hawking-radiation-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/physicists-made-a-black-hole-in-a-lab-that-may-finally-prove-hawking-radiation-exists","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Made a \u2018Black Hole\u2019 in a Lab That May Finally Prove Hawking Radiation Exists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e-P5IFTqB98?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists may have found signs that phonons, the very small packets of energy that make up sound waves, were leaking out of sonic black holes, just as Hawking\u2019s equations predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Some 42 years ago, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proposed that not everything that comes in contact with a black hole succumbs to its unfathomable nothingness. Tiny particles of light (photons) are sometimes ejected back out, robbing the black hole of an infinitesimal amount of energy, and this gradual loss of mass over time means every black hole eventually evaporates out of existence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stephen-hawking-just-published-new-solution-to-the-black-hole-information-paradox\" target=\"_blank\">Known as Hawking radiation<\/a>, these escaping particles help us make sense of one of the greatest enigmas in the known Universe, but after more than four decades, no one\u2019s been able to actually prove they exist, and Hawking\u2019s proposal remained firmly in hypothesis territory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/physicists-made-black-hole-lab-may-finally-prove-hawking-radiation-exists\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/physicists-made-black-hole-lab-may-final...on-exists\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists may have found signs that phonons, the very small packets of energy that make up sound waves, were leaking out of sonic black holes, just as Hawking\u2019s equations predicted. Some 42 years ago, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking proposed that not everything that comes in contact with a black hole succumbs to its unfathomable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60318,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions\/60318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}