KentuckyFC writes “Italian physicists are claiming the first observation of Hawking radiation, but not from a black hole. Instead they’ve spotted it streaming from a sonic horizon in a Bose Einstein Condensate (abstract on the arXiv). That’s consistent with previous predictions but they’re claiming the ‘first’ although the experiment was only a numerical simulation. Does that really count?”
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