A black hole isn't actually a black hole though, There is a extremely small sphere in the dark area. All they created was a hole the light wraps around. Don't get me wrong it is fascinating though. Good looking out.
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[edit on 07/16/2009 by Lichter daraus]

Cool find. Maybe this will swallow the earth.

Can they whip up some General Tso's while they're at it?

(Bad joke, bad joke)

Gross mislabeling of the thread, I really don't like that.
Sounds sensationalist.

Physics maybe nifty, but let's not resort to shady marketing practices on ATS.

i dont think anyone will be able to actually create a black hole ever.

not unless they can take an enormous star and collapse it into itself, until it becomes the size of a car or bucket near instantaneously. it will also have to spin at near lightspeed.....

because the blackholes that people think of, are actually the after math of a singularity acting upon space. the "blackness" is the singularity gravity sucking in everything.

no singularity; no blackhole.

cute little attempts at making blackholes (like at cern) wont last more than a mere moment. you wouldnt even be able to perceive its existence.

no singularity; no threat.

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on that note. this is cool. it has the blackhole effect (trapping light), but does little else. one thing to consider is that it isnt even grabbing the whole electromagnetic spectrum. it's only grabbing microwaves (which yes they are small, but highly energetic)

so i think that they are misrepresenting the device, if they are calling it a blackhole. i mean, whats a blackhole without gravity?

its a pretty cool concept though. I am a little curious about how they will explain how nothing exits the device. even black holes, with their infinite destructiveness and apparent doom to all, has an escapee - radiation. hawkings radiation specifically.

when you take all that matter and crush it to nothingness, you get buttloads of x-rays

It seems to me that the scientists have mimicked one of the properties of a black hole and "Discover Magazine" has labeled that a black hole.

That's cheap sensationalism and it diminishes the importance of the actual work, which I don't quite understand.

Maybe "Discover" doesn't understand it, either.