optical black hole

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A phenomenon in which slow light is passed through a Bose-Einstein condensate that is itself spinning faster than the local speed of light within to create a vortex capable of trapping the light behind an event horizon, just as a gravitational black hole would.

Word forms

optical black hole optical black holes
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