I don’t know why this hasn’t been posted here on a time travel message board before but here goes. A team led by Lene Hau of Harvard University has created the first artificial black hole by mimicking the death of a star. I think in the future, this will lead to wormholes and time travel. Here’s the link.
It’s interesting, but it’s not a real black hole. It’s electrostatic induction.
Much further along.
TimeLord,
Which explains the scare quotes around the term “black hole” in the above article and in the original PRL paper.
From the original Physical Review Letters paper: