"optical black hole" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: optical black holes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=optical black hole}} optical black hole (plural optical black holes)
  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. Wikipedia link: optical black hole Categories (topical): Black holes
    Sense id: en-optical_black_hole-en-noun-L~bmnw9r Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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