However Physicist Ted Jacobson of the University of the Maryland in College Park, who suggested in 1999 that analogue radiation could be seen in the laboratory, says that the possibility of gleaning new
insights about black holes from the sonic experiment remains «far fetched», for now.
Not exact matches
Even if primordial
black holes never actually formed, thinking
about them has led to remarkable physical
insights.
Hawking wanted to see whether quantum mechanics, which governs the behavior of atoms and fundamental particles, could provide any
insight about the nature of
black holes.
«Pretty much anything we can learn
about black holes has a good chance of leading to deep
insights about the laws of physics,» says Daniel Harlow of Princeton University.
The observations, presented in a paper led by Yali Shao (Peking University and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory), have provided intriguing
insight about early supermassive
black hole growth.