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Re:Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in yo... by pal9000i on Monday July 27, 2026 @07:43AM (#49068134)
Can i make an analogue version of this somehow? That would be ultra cool
Re:Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in yo... by aplavin on Monday July 27, 2026 @04:03PM (#49074864)
You mean, without a camera and a screen, out of pure physical objects? You can actually reproduce light bending quite accurately with a properly-shaped lens (some wine glasses are surprisingly close!), see eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PviYbX7cUUg for a classical wine glass experiment, or https://sites.google.com/view/jeansurdej/gravitational-lense... for purpose-made lenses. It only reproduces the so-called "weak field" bending, not light that makes half a turn (coming from behind you) or more.