“Black holes can be difficult to study, so researchers have made a powerful quantum vortex in a tank of superfluid helium that acts as a simulation of a black hole.”
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“Black holes can be difficult to study” is my favorite understatement of 2024 so far.
> "Captain, we're about to be sucked into the quantum vortex!"
"Scotty, get us out of here!"
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