{"id":75886,"date":"2018-02-11T14:42:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/ultra-intense-laser-stops-electrons-travelling-at-near-light-speed-for-first-time-mimicking-black-holes"},"modified":"2018-02-11T14:42:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:42:34","slug":"ultra-intense-laser-stops-electrons-travelling-at-near-light-speed-for-first-time-mimicking-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/ultra-intense-laser-stops-electrons-travelling-at-near-light-speed-for-first-time-mimicking-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ultra-intense laser\u2019 stops electrons travelling at near-light speed for first time, mimicking black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ultra-intense-laser-stops-electrons-travelling-at-near-light-speed-for-first-time-mimicking-black-holes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a laser beam one quadrillion times brighter than the Sun, physicists have stopped electrons travelling at near-light speeds for the first time. The experiment produced a quantum mechanical phenomenon that was previously only thought to occur around black holes and quasars.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiECMOiZEfW2ImBf_5BOITLgUqFggEKg4IACoGCAowzdp7ML-3CTCtyxU\">https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiECMOiZEfW2ImBf_5BO...L-3CTCtyxU<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a laser beam one quadrillion times brighter than the Sun, physicists have stopped electrons travelling at near-light speeds for the first time. The experiment produced a quantum mechanical phenomenon that was previously only thought to occur around black holes and quasars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75886","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\/75886","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}