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Atom Lasers/Black Holes
Last month, scientists at the annual meeting or the American Astronomical Society announced the strongest evidence yet for black holes. And, on a smaller scale, physicists have developed the first laser that shoots a beam of atoms instead photons. Black holes and atom lasers, in this hour of Science Friday.
Guests:
Jeff McClintock
Astrophysicist
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Cambridge, MA
Doug Richstone
Professor of Astronomy
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Wolfgang Ketterle
Assistant Professor of Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
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