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Lab-Made Fireball May Be a Black Hole

Posted by Zonk on from the slurp! dept.

MoogMan writes "BBC News reports that a lab fireball may be a black hole. From the article: "A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said. The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter falls into a black hole and comes out as "Hawking" radiation." More information available from the NewScientist article (subscription required)."

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  1. Re:Better explanation: by T3kno · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    However, the collision fireball has been smaller and shorter-lived than expected, according to two RHIC collaborations (STAR and PHENIX) of pions (the lightest form of quark-antiquark pairs)

    One question, are pions sub-atomic particles or the poor schmucks that have to go into the collider and look at the fireballs first hand?

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