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Lab Created Black Hole?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the originally-dismissed-as-a-fart-in-the-air-conditioning dept.

Blarrrg writes "Humans may have created the first ever black hole in a lab. From the article: 'When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks and gluons. These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions.'"

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  1. Re:The Temperature Seems Low... by slughead · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does anyone have a better reference for the effective temperature involved?

    It's about a billion times hotter than the ambient temperature of the Library of Congress.

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