00:00there's still a lot we don't really know about black holes as the closest one to us is around
00:081600 light years away and because they gobble up literally everything that passes through
00:13their event horizon even light meaning looking at one is impossible we rather have to look at
00:17its effects on nearby light and matter which is why physicists created a simulation of a black
00:22hole by using a string of atoms lined up effectively creating a black hole's event horizon in a lab
00:28but when they did this something strange started to happen the event horizon began to glow the
00:33researchers say this is effectively what is known as hawking radiation or what is still considered
00:37theoretical radiation released by a black hole's event horizon the physicists outline how this could
00:42help solve some fundamental issues with our current universal models specifically how the theory of
00:47relativity interacts with quantum mechanics two theories that are currently at odds mathematically
00:52that's because nothing can pass the event horizon not even something traveling as fast as light but
00:56theoretically hawking radiation which science alert reports is similar to thermal radiation could
01:02and in fact the simulation sort of proved this as electrons were able to travel along the single
01:06chain of atoms heating up and glowing effectively letting radiation cross the uncrossable event horizon
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