Lab-Made Fireball May Be a Black Hole

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)."

Comments

Thank heavens...

[Alpha_Traveller]

I'm glad this fireball/black-hole thing wasn't THAT much of a success. I'd hate to have to hear that same giant-sucking-sound again that we heard during the 2004 Election...

Re:Yet another milestone in my Earth Destruction P

[stg]

Is that book about the goatse guy?

Re:Yet another milestone in my Earth Destruction P

[demachina]

Just to give equal time to religious fanatics on both sides I imagine you should be more worried about fundementalist Christians laying there hands on the technology, especialy those in sects with a strong penchant for dwelling on the Book of Revelation and the Rapture.

You see they are already sitting around waiting not so patiently for the end of the world and are convinced that God will sweep all the good Christians, them, up to heaven when the end is near and all the heathens will be left to burn in the hell or the black hole, which ever one has the strongest pull.