LAB-GROWN BLACK HOLE MAY HAVE JUST PROVEN THAT HAWKING RADIATION EXISTS

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A few months ago, someone started working on building a black hole in a laboratory in a quest to find out whether Hawking radiation could really exist. It took physicist Jeff Steinhauer, of the Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa seven years to single-handedly perfect his method to recreate black holes. And now the results have been published in Nature Physics.

Jeff Steinhauer single-handedly imitates black holes in a lab. Credit: Nitzan Zohar, Office of the Spokesperson, Technion.
His lab-grown black hole implies that Hawking was right.

In 1974, Hawking theorized that, contrary to the belief that a black hole would continuously and infinitely suck in everything around it, energy could in fact, seep out of it in the form of radiation. This eventually became known as “Hawking radiation.” This causes a black hole’s eventual demise, as the energy seeps out and the black hole dissipates into nothing.

Recent findings did confirm that there are some things that could escape a black hole’s supposedly inescapable pull, such as light.

Jeff Steinhauer single-handedly imitates black holes in a lab. Credit: Nitzan Zohar, Office of the Spokesperson, Technion.
His lab-grown black hole implies that Hawking was right.

In 1974, Hawking theorized that, contrary to the belief that a black hole would continuously and infinitely suck in everything around it, energy could in fact, seep out of it in the form of radiation. This eventually became known as “Hawking radiation.” This causes a black hole’s eventual demise, as the energy seeps out and the black hole dissipates into nothing.

Recent findings did confirm that there are some things that could escape a black hole’s supposedly inescapable pull, such as light.