optical black hole

noun

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  1. A phenomenon in which slow light is passed through a Bose-Einstein condensate that is…

    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.

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