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  • How To Make A Black Hole In A Science Lab

    How To Make A Black Hole In A Science Lab

    Nearly 50 years ago”before Interstellar, A Brief History of Time, and certainly the Event Horizon Telescope“postdoctoral researcher William Unruh was attempting to explain black holes to a crowd at an Oxford University colloquium. There were no reference points with which to compare an object so dense that light cannot escape its warped gravity. So he…