https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1308.2352/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6236529urn:hackerpapers:mention:1308.2352:6236529Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:08:16 GMT<p>tl;dr (emphasis added): &quot;Solutions to this problem turn out to be mathematically equivalent to photon spheres around black holes in cosmology [...] As an application, we uncover super-coherent material eddies in the South Atlantic ...&quot; http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.2352 I&#x27;m not a physicist, but I interpret this to mean that it isn&#x27;t an analogy of the gravitational pull of a black hole. Instead, the fluid motion around black holes and large oceanic eddies are mathematically similar.</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1308.2352/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>physics.ao-ph