vortices
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The phenomenon happens when fluids - in this case hot gases - slide past each other and cause small disturbances to grow into spiralling vortices.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Zooming in on the Sun's surface, the team captured a detailed view of swirling vortices.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Magnetic vortices form in ultrathin disks made of materials like nickel-iron, often just micrometers or even nanometers in size.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
In this case, the researchers found that magnetic vortices can naturally produce Floquet states when magnons are sufficiently energized.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 27, 2026
Hooke also did away with the vortices, introducing the idea of what we would now call ‘action at a distance’—gravity reaching out across empty space to tug on the Moon or the planets.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
