Our paper Rotating curved spacetime signatures from a giant quantum vortex, which was published this month in Nature, attracted the attention of several media outlets and pop-science blogs and Youtube channels. In our press release, we renamed the giant quantum vortex we created in superfluid helium as a ‘quantum tornado’, which apparently became popular with the media!

Currently, the Altmetric score of the paper is 785 and falls within the top 5% of all research outputs assessed by Altmetric, which is amazing!

Here is a quick and definitely non-exhaustive summary of vlogs and articles reporting on our work:

• BBC Science Focus: ‘Quantum tornado’ could unlock secrets of black holes
• The Independent: Scientists create ‘giant quantum vortex’
• IFLscience: First Ever “Quantum Tornado” Lets Scientists Simulate Black Holes In The Lab
• Livescience: Physicists make record-breaking ‘quantum vortex’ to study the mysteries of black holes
• phys.org: Quantum tornado provides gateway to understanding black holes
• Physics World: Giant quantum tornado behaves like a black hole in miniature
• Science Alert: First-of-Its-Kind ‘Quantum Tornado’ Achieves Record-Breaking Black Hole Mimicry
• EurekAlert!: Quantum tornado provides gateway to understanding black holes
• Space.com: ‘Quantum tornado’ allows scientists to mimic a black hole on Earth

I also gave an interview to the Slovak journal Dennik N and I appeared live on Slovak national TV, RTVS in their Aktualne :24 news show.

Mentions of our research appeared in many other languages that picked up on the English news outlets, such as:

• scinexx.de: Ein Quantentornado als Raumzeit-Simulator
• infobae.com: Un tornado cuántico abre la puerta a comprender los agujeros negros
• science&vie.com: Un vortex quantique géant créé en laboratoire pour mieux comprendre les trous noirs
• Naked Science: Астрофизики создали гигантский квантовый вихрь для изучения черных дыр
• wnp.pl: Kwantowe tornado pomaga badać czarne dziury
• Tekniika & Talous: Tutkijat loivat 40 000 minikokoisesta osasesta jättimäisen kvanttipyörteen, jolla voi tutkia mustia aukkoja
• Aljazeera.net: علماء يُولّدون إعصارا كمّيا أشد فتكا من الأعاصير الطبيعية بمراحل
• Twoday: טורנדו קוונטי פותח מסתורין של חורים שחורים
• … and (probably) others!