Man Creates A Black Hole On Earth

In June of 2009, a fairly significant breakthrough was made at the Israel Institute of Technology. Researchers at Technion created an analog black hole here on Earth!


The team "cooled 100,000 rubidium atoms to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero and used a laser to created a void in this tiny cloud."  As the atoms flew around at more than 4X the speed of sound a black hole's event horizon was created of which no sound waves could escape.


So what the hell does that mean?  It means we can possibly test Stephen Hawking's theory that a real black hole should, "slowly evaporate as it emits radiation generated in the quantum turmoil at its event horizon."

Got that?  Me either but I find black holes fascinating and who would have ever though man could create such mysterious and awe inspiring mass of the cosmos?  Certainly not I, and if anything it means we are reaching goals never though possible before.  What else can we come up with?