• Question: Will we ever recreate a black hole?

    Asked by Noodlemeister to Jos, Kate, Lisa on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Joshaniel Cooper

      Joshaniel Cooper answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      Probably, and maybe we even already have in the LHC! But a black hole which is very small doesn’t have any more gravitational pull than a different very small thing (you aren’t gravitationally attracted to a mouse for example). If they are very small and don’t absorb anything then a theory by Stephen Hawking says that they evaporate and disappear (we haven’t seen this yet so can’t tell if it is true).

    • Photo: Kate Dobson

      Kate Dobson answered on 20 Nov 2014:

      As Jos says, in theory we already can provided it’s small. If we want to keep everything as it is we should probably keep it that way!

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