
Originally Posted by
Xei
He also said they would be tiny.
It's easy to fall into the trap of treating a black hole like some kind of object with incredibly high mass packed into a tiny space, but that's only a requirement for their natural formation, which only happens when a star's mass causes the inward force upon its matter to exceed the electrostatic repulsions between the matter, which can only happen when the star has a huge mass; hence natural black holes have huge masses.
If a black hole was formed at the LHC it would have the mass of a few nucleons; if you think about it, its gravitational effects would be no different than if a gas molecule were floating around your head.
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