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optical black hole

optical black hole noun: 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.

Noun

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.

Forms of optical black hole

pluraloptical black holes

Questions about optical black hole

What does optical black hole mean?
Optical black hole means 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.
What part of speech is optical black hole?
Optical black hole is a noun.
What is the plural of optical black hole?
The plural of optical black hole is optical black holes.

Words near optical black hole in the dictionary

  1. optical activity
  2. optical art
  3. optical astronomy
  4. optical axes
  5. optical axis
  6. optical black hole
  7. optical black holes
  8. optical character recognition
  9. optical coherence tomography
  10. optical delusion
  11. optical delusions

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