One team used one laser to confine the BEC to a narrow tube, and another to accelerate some of it faster than the speed of sound. This fast flow created two horizons: an “outer” one at the point where ...

A Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) of ultracold atoms has been used to create a laboratory analogue of laser emission from a black hole. The work was done by Jeff Steinhauer at Technion in Israel, and ...

Yes, we’ve managed to create a black hole…or at least the optical equivalent of a black hole’s extreme, light-trapping properties thanks to an ingenious combination of lasers and glass. Best of all, ...

In a laboratory in Scotland, a revolutionary kind of laser is taking shape – the first one to be made out of an artificial black hole. Once complete, the device could help confirm mounting evidence ...