When placed in a magnetic field, many superconductors display swirling vortices of electric current — a hallmark of the standard superconductivity theory. (sciencenews.org)
This trick is a speciality of Mikkelsen's bad sorcerer Kaecilius, and it involves taking ornate surfaces such as the facades of buildings and rolling them up like parchments, while decorative cornices swirl and seemingly solid floors turn into swirling vortexes. (filmcomment.com)
While «garbage patch» might make you think of something you pass by on the side of the road, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is less like a patch and more like a massive swirling vortex more than three times the size of Spain and more than twice the size of Turkey or Texas. (businessinsider.com)