Slow light, swirl atoms Whirling clouds of atoms may swallow light the way black holes do, possibly giving scientists a way to test the general theory of relativity in the lab, not just in outer space. Relativistic effects of light in moving media with extremely low group velocity. Optics of nonuniformly moving media.
Light crawls through cold-atom cloud.
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