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optical black holes

optical black holes is the plural of optical black hole.

Meaning of optical black hole

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.

Questions about optical black holes

What is optical black holes the plural of?
Optical black holes is the plural of optical black hole.

Words near optical black holes in the dictionary

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

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