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Astrophysicist, science communicator, and contributor to Space.com.
These tiny black holes are not a cause for alarm — they would evaporate in less than 10^-27 seconds, transmuting into a shower of particles well before they did anything interesting like swallowing Earth.
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Paul Sutter, "The atom smasher could seed tiny black holes that devour the Earth — but don't panic," Live Science, December 4, 2020.
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The Large Hadron Collider poses no credible risk of destroying Earth by creating a microscopic black hole
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AI Verified The quote says tiny black holes would evaporate in less than 10^-27 seconds, directly supporting the statement that the LHC poses no credible Earth-destruction risk from microscopic black holes. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago
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AI Verified The quote says tiny black holes would evaporate in less than 10^-27 seconds, so the recorded 'for' answer is correct for the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago

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AI Verified Exact wording appears in Paul Sutter's Live Science article on microscopic black holes; attribution and context match the published source. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 2h ago
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