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For the first time ever, Physicists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have captured an image of a type of strong quantum entanglement referred to as Bell entanglement.

This is what it looks like

The particular type of entanglement investigated in the experiment, Bell entanglement, is named after John Stewart Bell, the author of Bell's Theorem which rules out local hidden variables as a viable explanation of quantum mechanics.

Bell formalised the concept of quantum entanglement and was a notable critic of Einstein's principle of local realism – both the assumption that nothing can move faster than the speed of light, and the assumption that a particle must objectively have a pre-existing value in order to be measured.

The researchers results (full article) were published last week in the journal Science Advances.

The image we've managed to capture is an elegant demonstration of a fundamental property of nature, seen for the very first time in the form of an image," said Dr Paul-Antoine Moreau of the University of Glasgow's School of Physics and Astronomy, and lead author of the paper.

"It's an exciting result which could be used to advance the emerging field of quantum computing and lead to new types of imaging."

Scientists are certainly burning the Type Ia Supernova (*) at both ends lately - from imaging black holes to imaging quantum entanglement.

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