Mol Black Hole (IMAGE)

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Mol Black Hole

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A team of researchers, including several physicists from the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, discovered that a molecule containing a large atom could act like a molecular 'black hole' when exposed to ultrafast laser pulses, sucking in electrons from nearby lighter atoms. (Image courtesy of DESY).

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