🚨 Scientists just built a *tiny* black hole.

🚨 Scientists just built a *tiny* black hole.

Stephen Hawking once proposed that black holes aren’t truly black—that they emit faint radiation at their edges. Now, scientists may have seen the first experimental signs of that elusive glow.

 In a groundbreaking study, physicists at the University of Amsterdam created a black hole analogue in the lab using a chain of ultra-cold atoms. By cd

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ered a boundary where motion stopped—mimicking an event horizon, the point of no return around a black hole.

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.This simulated "Hawking radiation" matched predictions based on quantum theory, offering a rare glimpse into how quantum mechanics might interact with gravity. 

While it’s not an actual black hole, the experiment shows that under the right conditions, the strange quantum effects Hawking described can be observed in the lab. The results hint that the curvature of spacetime—how gravity shapes the universe—may play a crucial role in generating this radiation, bringing physicists one step closer to bridging the gap between the quantum and cosmic realms.

Source: "Thermalization by a synthetic horizon." Physical Review Research,