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A Chinese paraglider, Peng Yujiang, was sucked into a dangerous cloud vortex at nearly 8,600 meters altitude in northwestern China, surviving a harrowing experience that involved extreme cold and high winds, and was subsequently punished by local authorities. The incident drew disbelief and social media attention in China.
Physicists have achieved a groundbreaking feat by creating a "quantum tornado" in superfluid helium, mimicking the behavior of black holes with unprecedented precision. By studying the vortex, researchers have identified similarities between the vortex flow and the influence of a spinning black hole on the curved space-time around it, offering new insights into the behavior of black holes. This experiment has the potential to unlock a new area of black hole science and predict how quantum fields behave in curved spacetimes around astrophysical black holes.