Chinese scientists build black hole

[UM-Bot]

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Earlier this year researchers theorized how to build a table-top black hole, now two scientists in China have succeeded in building one using the same materials that made the invisibility cloak technology possible.

"Researchers theorized how to design a table-top black hole earlier this year. Now two ambitious Chinese scientists have actually built one—using the same materials that made invisibility cloaks possible."

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[Horus Christos]

uhhhh....don't know about anyone else but I don't like the idea of anyone building black holes. They have a dangerous way of growing.

[+DieChecker]

The article says it is not an actual black hole, but a device that mimics the light bending properties of graviy using exotic materials that bend electric fields.

[behaviour???]

Now this certainly improves and open possibilities for more and more discoveries...Hats of to the Two scientist...

The Invisibility cloak is true?...i dont disgest that up

Thanks

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[meankitty]

I suspect there is a large black hole somewhere in my house. Stuff goes in there and I never find it again.

[sepulchrave]

Ugh. This article is science reporting at its worst.

The Chinese guys have built a ``perfect absorber'' for a particular wavelength of light. In other words; it is truly matte black.

There also is no ``invisibility cloak technology''. Again, there are special geometries (spheres and cylinders) which can be coated with optical meta-materials to bend a specific wavelength of light around them, making them effectively invisible. This is only for a limited portion of the spectrum and only for a limited shape of object. Maybe one day there will be true ``invisibility cloaks'', but that day is not today nor, likely, any time soon.

[:PsYKoTiC:BeHAvIoR:]

I suspect there is a large black hole somewhere in my house. Stuff goes in there and I never find it again.

It's the vortex in the dryer of doom!