Hole 7 gravity lab1/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Half a century ago the situation was rather different. ![]() The news outlets are feeding us with the closest black holes for breakfast, the most giant ones for lunch. In the recent years we have heard many things about black holes: We have witnessed the first ever image of the shadow of a supermassive black hole M87, interpreted from the data from Event Horizon Telescope we have read reports of discovery of a supermassive black hole candidate, Sagittarius A*, just in the middle of the Milky Way ( Nobel prize in Physics 2020). Hole 7 gravity lab movie#For this work, Kip Thorne, together with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish, has received the Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 – which technically makes “Interstellar” the only movie endorsed by both the Oscars and the Nobel Prize in Physics. Kip Thorne and collaborators did an excellent job, together with actually being lucky confirming gravitational waves in the experiments a year later (and after decades of instrumental upgrades and designs). ![]() In the movie “Interstellar” (2014) Christopher Nolan went even further by hiring physicist Kip Thorne as a scientific advisor and executive producer, implementing and promoting the concept of gravitational waves – back than yet an unconfirmed hypothesis – into the movie, into our culture, into our lives. The Black Hole Eraīlack holes have attracted attention of scientists, artists and sci-fi writers. To test fundamental quantum processes at the event horizons, we might need to roll our sleeves, and go downstairs to the lab. Astrophysical black holes are too remote to probe the quantum gravity effects. ![]()
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