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optical black hole

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English

Syllables
op-ti-cal black- -hole
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

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.

Inflected Forms

optical black holes (plural)

Questions

What does optical black hole mean?
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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