{"id":12488,"date":"2012-09-28T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=12488"},"modified":"2012-09-28T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T08:00:55","slug":"hey-photon-that-black-hole-makes-you-look-rather-svelte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12488","title":{"rendered":"Hey Photon, That Black Hole Makes You Look Rather Svelte"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/physicists-use-of-black-hole-studies-to-measure-photon-mass-published-in-physical-review-letters\/\">Physicists\u2019 Use of Black Hole Studies to Measure Photon Mass Published in Physical Review Letters<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUltralight photons with nonzero mass would produce a \u2018black hole bomb\u2019: a strong instability that would extract energy from the black hole very quickly,\u201d said Pani, the paper\u2019s lead author. \u201cThe very existence of such particles is constrained by the observation of spinning black holes. With this technique, we have succeeded in constraining the mass of the photon to unprecedented levels: the mass must be one hundred billion of billions times smaller than the present constraint on the neutrino mass, which is about two electron-volts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists\u2019 Use of Black Hole Studies to Measure Photon Mass Published in Physical Review Letters \u201cUltralight photons with nonzero mass would produce a \u2018black hole bomb\u2019: a strong instability that would extract energy from the black hole very quickly,\u201d said &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/12488\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}