First electromagnetic 'black hole' built on earth, nobody raps a...

Courtesy Engadget  Sat, 10/17/2009 - 08:40

An electromagnetic black hole -- which sucks in the light surrounding it -- has been built at Southeast University in Nanjing, China for the first time.

The device works like cosmological black holes in that it has gravity which is intense enough to bend the surrounding space-time, causing any matter in the neighborhood to spiral inward and create the hole itself.

The earth-built 'black hole' for microwave frequencies is constructed of 60 annular strips of meta-materials (yes, that's...

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