Links for 09-03-2008
Bench-top black hole effects; formerly habitable Martian lake (apparently); Alpha Centauri should have planets …
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1 – Black Hole Effect Created in Lab
“… the researchers fired a continuous beam of infrared light down the optical fiber. This beam created waves that got overtaken by the laser flow, resembling how light waves are overcome by the gravitational pull just past an event horizon.”
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2 – Once-Habitable Lake Found on Mars
“A lake that might once have been habitable may have filled a crater for a long time on early Mars, new spacecraft images reveal.” Whatever.
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3 – Theoretically, Alpha Centauri should have planets
“A new paper just published by a team of planet-hunters shows that theoretically speaking, not only can Alpha Centauri have planets, it *should* have them.”
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