Black Holes


Scientists Create Artificial Mini 'Black Hole' -- Lisa Zyga  -- PhysOrg.com  -- June 3, 2010
Physics

Scientists from China have built a device that can trap and absorb microwaves coming from all directions with a 99% absorption rate - a property that makes the device simulate, to some extent, an astrophysical black hole.

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Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes -- Adrian Cho  -- Science  -- January 22, 2010
Black Holes

A new computer model shows conclusively for the first time that a particle collision really can make a black hole, though the researchers are quick to point out that the experiment assumed energies a quintillion times higher than existing colliders (ex. the Large Hadron Collider).

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A Black Future -- Tom Siegfried  -- Science News  -- December 19, 2009
Black Holes

Researchers are cautiously optimistic that experiments at the Large Hadron Collider could produce tiny black holes -- not large enough to threaten the earth -- but sufficient to test theories on how black holes could be used for energy production or even starships.

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Artificial Black Hole Created in Chinese Lab -- Technology Review  -- October 14, 2009
Black Holes

Researchers in China have successfully demonstrated a theory proposed earlier this year by creating an artificial black hole using metamaterials.

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Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate -- Technology Review  -- June 10, 2009
Black Holes

Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology, in Haifa, say that they've created the sonic equivalent of a black hole in a Bose-Einstein Condensate which should allow the eventual discovery of Hawking radiation.

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Black holes could bump asteroids our way -- Staff  -- New Scientist  -- March 10, 2008
Asteroid Defense

As if forecasting whether asteroids will hit the Earth wasn't hard enough, it now seems that primordial black holes could surprise us by nudging a rock or two our way.

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Scientists simulate 'black hole' -- Staff  -- BBC News  -- March 6, 2008
Physics

An artificial black hole has been simulated in a laboratory by scientists using lasers at St Andrews University.

Intense light pulses were used to create an artificial event horizon - the defining feature of a black hole known as the "point of no return".

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Satellite could open door on extra dimension -- Maggie McKee  -- New Scientist  -- May 30, 2006
Space Expansion

An exotic theory, which attempts to unify the laws of physics by proposing the existence of an extra fourth spatial dimension, could be tested using a satellite to be launched in 2007. Such theories are notoriously difficult to test. But a new study suggests that such hidden dimensions could give rise to thousands of mini-black holes within our own solar system – and the theory could be tested within Pluto’s orbit in just a few years.

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Black holes: The ultimate quantum computers? -- Maggie McKee  -- New Scientist  -- March 13, 2006
Metacomputing

Nearly all of the information that falls into a black hole escapes back out, a controversial new study argues. The work suggests that black holes could one day be used as incredibly accurate quantum computers -- if enormous theoretical and practical hurdles can first be overcome.

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Black holes 'do not exist' -- Phillip Ball  -- Nature  -- March 31, 2005
Physics

Black holes are staples of science fiction and many think astronomers have observed them indirectly. But according to a physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, these awesome breaches in space-time do not and indeed cannot exist.

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