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Optical black-hole analogues

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Optical analogues of gravity let scientists interrogate astronomical phenomena that are otherwise difficult or impossible to study.

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Figure 1: Black holes, which affect light and matter in a profound way but are difficult to probe, are now being replicated in optics laboratories.

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  1. Dentcho A. Genov is in the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Engineering Annex, Room 220, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA. dgenov@latech.edu,

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Genov, D. Optical black-hole analogues. Nature Photon 5, 76–78 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.5

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