Sunday, March 20, 2005
Blackhole in the lab
[From Roberto Almanza] A fireball observed at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York shows certain characteristics of a black hole, says physicist Horatiu Nastase in a paper that appeared on the pre-print website arxiv.org.
Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations.
The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.
Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations.
The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.
