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What does this sentence mean?

Despite the fact that this has been done previously, a team lead by Lotte Mertens from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands has created something brand-new.

This -- https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2022/11/scientists-created-black-hole-in-lab.html -- whole article makes me want to scream.

Maybe it's pointing to this "breaking news" from Dec 2.

https://thedebrief.org/black-hole-simulated-in-the-lab-suddenly-starts-glowing-potentially-pointing-to-a-unified-theory-of-gravity/

ugh