Tiny materials may mimic astronomical events, including the trapping of light in black holes and the disruption of planetary orbits, a new report in the September Nature Physics proposes. The shape and design of the proposed materials may allow scientists to do previously impossible experiments by replicating aspects of the heavens at the laboratory bench.rn"Astrophysicists build a telescope and watch the sky, and it they're lucky, in their lives, they'll see one or two events," says study coauthor Xiang Zhang of the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Now you don't have to wait 100 years to observe interesting phenomena."
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