First Black Hole For Light Created On Earth

An anonymous reader writes "An electromagnetic 'black hole' that sucks in surrounding light has been built for the first time. The device, which works at microwave frequencies, may soon be extended to trap visible light, leading to an entirely new way of harvesting solar energy to generate electricity. A theoretical design for a table-top black hole to trap light was proposed in a paper published earlier this year by Evgenii Narimanov and Alexander Kildishev of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Their idea was to mimic the properties of a cosmological black hole, whose intense gravity bends the surrounding space-time, causing any nearby matter or radiation to follow the warped space-time and spiral inwards."

Comments

What will the support calls sound like?

[TheOriginalLimey]

"Hello, my black hole is red this morning?" "Hello, I've lost my black hole and the the room it was in is missing too?" ....and the responses... "Sir, could you please stick your head in the black hold to see if it's working? Yup, just go ahead....little further..."

Re:Hello darkness

[evan_arrrr!]

Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turn my collar to the cold and damp

Re:Gotta say ...

[tritonman]

Just wait until Al-Qaeda gets a hold of this technology