The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) poses no credible risk of destroying Earth by creating a microscopic black hole

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Insufficient collision energy

Several quotes say current accelerators are nowhere near the energy needed to create a dangerous black hole, and some state that the LHC simply cannot make one from its proton collisions at all. In this view, the basic physical precondition for an Earth-threatening event is missing.

Current particle accelerators are nowhere near the energy scale needed to create a dangerous black hole.

Don Lincoln · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote
The LHC gives a lot of energy to particles, but nowhere close to producing a black hole. The LHC simply can’t do that.

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti · Mar 12, 2026 · full quote
CERN's equipment began operating in March, a month before the eclipse, and the technology is nowhere near strong enough to open a portal or a black hole.

Gabrielle Settles · Apr 5, 2024 · full quote
At least in the energies we have with the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, we cannot throw particles together with enough force to cause tiny black holes.

Delilah Gates · Jun 10, 2021 · full quote
So there's no possible way we're gonna make a black hole out of two protons at the Large Hadron Collider.

James Beacham · Oct 28, 2021 · full quote

Immediate evaporation

Another common argument is that even if speculative microscopic black holes were produced, they would be extremely tiny, unstable, and would disintegrate or evaporate almost immediately, often described as around 10^-27 seconds. Because they would vanish before accreting matter, these sources say they could not cause macroscopic harm.

According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, it is impossible for LHC to produce black holes. However, some speculative theories predict the production of microscopic black holes. All these theories predict that these particles would disintegrate immediately. Black holes, theref…

CERN · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote
If micro black holes do appear they would disintegrate extremely rapidly, in around 10^{-27} seconds, as they decay into Standard Model or SUSY particles, producing many jets and leptons.

CMS Experiment · Jul 11, 2026 · full quote
These tiny black holes would emit all their energy - or "evaporate" - almost instantly through Hawking radiation, releasing a distinctive burst of particles that detectors like CMS at CERN could observe.

CMS Collaboration · Dec 4, 2025 · full quote
Quantum Black Holes are harmless for the environment: they will decay within less than 10⁻²⁷ seconds.

Albert De Roeck · Jun 17, 2021 · full quote
Any black holes that could be produced by the LHC would be microscopic, and they would immediately evaporate since they are no longer stable.

Dejan Stojkovic · Nov 10, 2022 · full quote
Ces collisions de protons au LHC font des particules excessivement légères, et donc elles créeraient un trou noir de la masse qu'elles ont, c'est-à-dire infiniment léger. Il ne pourrait pas attirer quoi que ce soit, il serait moins attractif qu'un caillou posé par terre, et il ne…

Stéphanie Roccia · Jul 21, 2022 · full quote

Natural-collision precedent

Many quotes argue that nature already produces similar or higher-energy collisions through cosmic rays striking Earth and the atmosphere. Since Earth and other astronomical objects have persisted through vast numbers of such events, these sources treat collider doomsday fears as inconsistent with what is already observed.

Physicists at the time published safety assessments addressing the concern directly, arguing that collisions of similar or greater energy already occur naturally and constantly from cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere.

Natalija Ugrina · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote
El universo produce más de 10 millones de millones de experimentos similares a los del LHC por segundo. Si esas colisiones fueran peligrosas, esto contradeciría lo que observamos, ya que las estrellas, las galaxias y la Tierra continúan existiendo.

Chequeado · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
“Earth survived these numerous impacts throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, implying that we should not fear a black hole doomsday ... If any microscopic black holes had been produced by cosmic-ray impacts on Earth, these black holes must have evaporated rapidly without causi…

Avi Loeb · Feb 8, 2026 · full quote
If this generated dangerous black holes, then the Earth has already been zapped by much higher-energy collisions from cosmic rays billions of times.

Elliott Lipeles · Jul 13, 2022 · full quote
No, CERN says the upgraded collider is no more likely to destroy the universe than the original machine. Nature already performs millions of LHC-like particle collisions every second through cosmic rays striking Earth's atmosphere.

From Quarks to Quasars · Jul 2, 2026 · full quote
“These collisions are actually happening in nature all around us all the time. ... If they were creating black holes on these other natural collisions, then we could have expected to have seen some kind of impact from that.”

Gene Van Buren · Feb 9, 2026 · full quote

Negligible gravitational effects

A separate line of argument focuses on what a microscopic black hole would physically be like: very small in mass, weak in gravitational influence, and not an object that automatically 'sucks in' surrounding matter. On this view, even a formed object would not behave like the popular image of a planet-eating cosmic black hole.

Black holes don't suck in other matter. From far enough away, their gravitational effects are just like those of other objects of the same mass.

NASA Science · Mar 11, 2026 · full quote
If you took the Earth and could squash it down into a black hole, it would make a black hole the size of a tennis ball. You need a lot of material to get anything you could actually see and observe.

Robert Massey · Mar 18, 2026 · full quote
If you replaced the Sun with a black hole of the same mass, the solar system would get a lot colder, but the planets would stay in their orbits.

Jeanette Kazmierczak · Mar 11, 2026 · full quote
Sarebbe probabilmente di massa così bassa che la sua influenza gravitazionale sarebbe relativamente piccola. In realtà non divorerebbe così tanta materia.

Eliot Quataert · Feb 21, 2023 · full quote
Microscopic black holes differ significantly from their cosmic counterparts. They would have minimal gravitational effects and pose no threat to Earth.

Factual America · Aug 23, 2024 · full quote
Black holes, generally speaking, are awful at consuming matter.

Doug Gobielle · 2022 · full quote

Middle ground

Speculative edge cases

A few quotes acknowledge that black-hole production can be discussed 'in principle' or under extra assumptions about dimensions, Hawking radiation, or other speculative conditions. But these remarks still describe the real-world LHC case as unlikely, impractical, or not something people should presently worry about.

“If reality has more than four dimensions, and if hawking radiation doesn't exist, and if CERN created a black hole with no charge ... then yes, CERN could create the black hole that would consume the world ... But it probably won't ever happen.”

Alex McColgan · Jan 15, 2026 · full quote
In principle, yes. In practice, no. That's what you need to do to ensure these things are safe.

Neil deGrasse Tyson · Mar 5, 2024 · full quote
CERN insists its research, including that of microscopic black holes, is perfectly safe, but some theorists believe it could cause a collapse of the entire universe.

HowStuffWorks · Mar 7, 2024 · full quote
Some worry it could destroy the world by creating mini black holes, strange matter, or even vacuum bubbles. But experts say there's no real risk of that, or at least, it's extremely unlikely.

Bright Side · Feb 10, 2026 · full quote
Si en algún momento somos capaces de generar un microagujero negro, el mundo no se destruirá, pero habrá que sentarse a tomar aliento.

Óscar del Barco Novillo · Feb 6, 2024 · full quote

Insights

Across the quotes, the same safety conclusion is reached through different mechanisms: inability to create a dangerous black hole, immediate evaporation, cosmic-ray precedent, or weak gravity.
Official CERN sources and experiment collaborations appear alongside outside physicists, science communicators, fact-checkers, and general news outlets, and they largely use similar safety framing.
Many quotes answer black-hole fears together with claims about portals, wormholes, timelines, or damaged reality, showing that the risk debate is often bundled with broader conspiracy narratives.
Several sources explicitly distinguish hypothetical microscopic collider objects from the massive astrophysical black holes familiar from popular culture.
The more cautious quotes tend to frame danger only as an 'in principle' or highly speculative scenario, not as a credible present risk under LHC conditions.

In the provided quotes, the discussion is dominated by sources rejecting an Earth-destroying black-hole scenario at the LHC. They differ mainly in explanation: some say the collider lacks the necessary energy, while others emphasize rapid evaporation, natural cosmic-ray precedents, or the weak pull of microscopic objects. Only a small subset discusses highly conditional theoretical edge cases, and no direct sourced cluster in this sample argues that the risk is presently credible.

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Indian news outlet that in July 2026 described CERN black-hole conspiracy claims as sensational internet conspiracies rather than real risk.

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Despite years of sensational internet conspiracies suggesting it could create black holes or portals, the shutdown is simply routine.
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If micro black holes do appear they would disintegrate extremely rapidly, in around 10^{-27} seconds, as they decay into Standard Model or SUSY particles, producing many jets and leptons.
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No black hole. No portal. No end of days. Just a very long, very expensive maintenance window.
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Los especialistas han rechazado de forma reiterada estas afirmaciones. El propio CERN explica que no hay evidencia científica que vincule el funcionamiento del LHC con desastres naturales o fenómenos extraordinarios. Respecto a la teoría de los aguje...
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Los físicos señalan que, incluso en escenarios teóricos, cualquier agujero negro microscópico generado por colisiones de partículas sería extremadamente inestable y desaparecería casi de inmediato. No hay pruebas de que el LHC represente un riesgo pa...
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Physicists at the time published safety assessments addressing the concern directly, arguing that collisions of similar or greater energy already occur naturally and constantly from cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere.
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Si ese tipo de eventos fuera realmente peligroso, ni la Tierra ni el Sol habrían sobrevivido miles de millones de años.
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Incluso en el escenario hipotético de que se generara un microagujero negro, este sería extremadamente pequeño e inestable, por lo que desaparecería casi de inmediato sin representar ningún peligro.
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According to Einstein’s theory of relativity, it is impossible for LHC to produce black holes. However, some speculative theories predict the production of microscopic black holes. All these theories predict that these particles would disintegrate im...
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Despite common misconceptions, CERN says the collider poses no danger to Earth. Similar high-energy particle collisions occur naturally in our atmosphere every second when cosmic rays strike the planet.
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El universo produce más de 10 millones de millones de experimentos similares a los del LHC por segundo. Si esas colisiones fueran peligrosas, esto contradeciría lo que observamos, ya que las estrellas, las galaxias y la Tierra continúan existiendo.
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La comunidad científica ha descartado ese escenario desde hace años al señalar que las condiciones de operación del LHC no representan un peligro para el planeta.
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Especialistas y el propio CERN señalaron a Chequeado que no existe evidencia científica que respalde estas afirmaciones.
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El apagado del Gran Colisionador de Hadrones no responde a una emergencia ni a un riesgo para la humanidad, sino a una etapa clave dentro de uno de los proyectos científicos más importantes del mundo.
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Apocalyptic conspiracy theories to the contrary, it expanded on key concepts in quantum physics, while charting a path forward for researchers around the world.
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Scientists explained that the tiny black holes predicted by some theories, if they could even be created, would disappear almost instantly and pose no danger.
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And for those harboring doomsday anxieties, CERN assures the public that these high-energy smashes pose zero risk to Earth - nature already runs millions of similar high-energy collisions every second in our atmosphere via cosmic rays.
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Science news outlet that published a 2026 article dismissing CERN time-altering and world-destroying conspiracy claims.

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Particle collisions are not affecting you. The usual claim is that it will destroy the world, but natural accelerators can produce particles with energies 100,000 times higher than collisions at the LHC.
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Science page that posted a 2026 explainer saying the upgraded LHC is no more likely to destroy the universe than the original machine.

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No, CERN says the upgraded collider is no more likely to destroy the universe than the original machine. Nature already performs millions of LHC-like particle collisions every second through cosmic rays striking Earth's atmosphere.
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No credible evidence supports the idea that CERN destroyed reality. The physics does not support the conspiracy claims.
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No credible evidence supports the idea that CERN destroyed reality.
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Science page that posted July 2026 LHC shutdown and anti-conspiracy explanations based on CERN's Long Shutdown 3 announcement.

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No, CERN says the upgraded collider is no more likely to destroy the universe than the original machine. Nature already performs millions of LHC-like particle collisions every second through cosmic rays striking Earth's atmosphere.
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LinkedIn user whose July 2026 post repeated CERN's claim that the upgraded collider is no more likely to destroy the universe than the original machine.

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No, CERN says the upgraded collider is no more likely to destroy the universe than the original machine. Nature already performs millions of LHC-like particle collisions every second through cosmic rays striking Earth's atmosphere.
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Science news account that posted a 2026 summary explaining why CERN's collider poses no risk to Earth.

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“CERN assures the public that these high-energy smashes pose zero risk to Earth—nature already runs millions of similar high-energy collisions every second in our atmosphere via cosmic rays.”
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CERN physicist quoted in 2026 about collider conspiracy theories and portals claims.

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“That is very different from opening a doorway, or a wormhole, or a portal into another dimension. We can’t do that. We’re not all-powerful.”
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“Unfortunately, the phrase ‘black hole’ fueled a lot of conspiracy theories. In reality, these would have been nothing like the enormous black holes made from thousands or millions of suns, and they would never have posed a danger.”
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It's not being turned off for fear of the world being sucked into some sort of cosmic anomaly - it's getting a major upgrade.
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Creating even a microscopic black hole or wormhole would require an accelerator the size of the whole universe, say researchers.
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La respuesta corta es tranquilizadora: según el conocimiento científico actual, no existe evidencia de que el CERN pueda generar un agujero negro peligroso.
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Diario UNO's editorial newsroom, which published a 2026 science explainer on CERN and Large Hadron Collider black-hole risk.

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La respuesta corta es tranquilizadora: según el conocimiento científico actual, no existe evidencia de que el CERN pueda generar un agujero negro peligroso.
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Current particle accelerators are nowhere near the energy scale needed to create a dangerous black hole.
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Science and culture page that posted a 2026 explainer rejecting claims that the Large Hadron Collider could create a dangerous black hole.

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Any black hole produced would be smaller than a subatomic particle and vanish in a fraction of a second. Other claims are pure fiction.
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Theoretical physicist who commented on CERN black-hole conspiracy claims in 2026.

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“They’re not trying to. ... I wish it were that fun. I wish it were that risky. ... you’re not going to be able to traverse anything.”
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In scientific reality, however, there is no risk of such an apocalyptic scenario occurring.
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The paper explains why we definitely don't need to worry about cosmic-ray collisions, vacuum bubbles, magnetic monopoles, microscopic black holes, or strangelets.
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La respuesta corta es no. Incluso en el hipotético caso de que un colisionador de partículas produjera una singularidad microscópica, las leyes de la termodinámica predicen su desaparición inmediata.
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«Ah, o CERN vai abrir um buraco negro» Infelizmente não. Não há energia suficiente para isso.
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That does not mean the machine is capable of rewriting history, merging timelines, or damaging reality itself. There is no scientific evidence showing that the LHC has changed the past or fractured our universe.
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Scientists from the ATLAS Collaboration are now recreating cosmic ray events at the Large Hadron Collider by colliding protons with oxygen ions for the very first time. This new approach turns ATLAS into a cosmic-ray laboratory.
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“And for those harboring doomsday anxieties, CERN assures the public that these high-energy smashes pose zero risk to Earth.”
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If you took the Earth and could squash it down into a black hole, it would make a black hole the size of a tennis ball. You need a lot of material to get anything you could actually see and observe.
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Astrophysicist and science communicator who discussed black-hole safety at the LHC in 2026.

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“We don't have the technology to do that. But I think it is worth saying that if you could do this, it would be safe.”
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The LHC gives a lot of energy to particles, but nowhere close to producing a black hole. The LHC simply can’t do that.
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If you replaced the Sun with a black hole of the same mass, the solar system would get a lot colder, but the planets would stay in their orbits.
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Black holes don't suck in other matter. From far enough away, their gravitational effects are just like those of other objects of the same mass.
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Just as we knew that a common fear from 2008, that "the LHC could create black holes that destroy the Earth," was unfounded, we also know that any particle physics experiment we perform on Earth won't give rise to any of those dire consequences that ...
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Some people worried that the large hadron collider would smash particles together so hard it would make black holes that would swallow the earth, open wormholes to other dimensions etc. It didn't and won't.
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Gli acceleratori come il CERN (il più potente del mondo) non possono generare buchi neri pericolosi.
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The upcoming Long Shutdown 3 will transform the LHC over four intensive years, and CERN says the upgraded collider is no more likely to destroy the universe than the original machine.
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Some worry it could destroy the world by creating mini black holes, strange matter, or even vacuum bubbles. But experts say there's no real risk of that, or at least, it's extremely unlikely.
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Nature is actually doing this all the time, and it has been for millennia, and it's not a problem for us.
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Gene Van Buren
Brookhaven nuclear physicist who discussed collider black-hole fears in a 2026 Science Friday interview.

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“These collisions are actually happening in nature all around us all the time. ... If they were creating black holes on these other natural collisions, then we could have expected to have seen some kind of impact from that.”
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Avi Loeb
Harvard astrophysicist who wrote in 2026 that cosmic rays already surpass collider black-hole scenarios.

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“Earth survived these numerous impacts throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, implying that we should not fear a black hole doomsday ... If any microscopic black holes had been produced by cosmic-ray impacts on Earth, these black holes must have ev...
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Space-science page that posted a 2026 explainer discussing why the Large Hadron Collider is not a credible Earth-destroying black-hole risk.

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The creation of black holes at the Large Hadron Collider is very unlikely.
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All credible scientific evidence confirms that the LHC at CERN is completely safe. Observational astronomy, theoretical physics, cosmic-ray data, and peer-reviewed safety studies all converge on the same conclusion: the LHC cannot destroy the Earth, ...
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Alex McColgan
Creator and host of Astrum Space, which published a 2026 explainer on CERN black-hole risk.

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“If reality has more than four dimensions, and if hawking radiation doesn't exist, and if CERN created a black hole with no charge ... then yes, CERN could create the black hole that would consume the world ... But it probably won't ever happen.”
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The probability that a rogue black hole will enter our solar system and create gravitational havoc over the lifetime of our civilisation is... zero.
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International particle-physics collaboration operating the CMS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

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These tiny black holes would emit all their energy - or "evaporate" - almost instantly through Hawking radiation, releasing a distinctive burst of particles that detectors like CMS at CERN could observe.
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Nevertheless, don't worry: Earth is in no danger of falling into a black hole.
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Ben Skuse
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It is incredibly unlikely Earth would fall into a black hole because, at a distance, their gravitational pull is no more compelling than a star of the same mass.
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Even in the unlikely event that the LHC did create a tiny black hole, it wouldn't be dangerous.
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何より、LHCでブラックホールが生み出せるならば、自然界はもっとブラックホールにあふれているでしょう。なぜなら、地球大気が宇宙と接する場では、宇宙線と大気分子との衝突により、LHCより何桁も高エネルギーな“粒子衝突実験”が、地球全体という広大な場で、46億年間も続けられているからです。
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Harry Cliff
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The universe has been doing this experiment for billions of years. If this was possible, every object in the universe would have been turned into a black hole.
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Nicolas Fiumarelli
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Las investigaciones del CERN están controladas y son seguras, con protocolos estrictos que aseguran que estos experimentos avanzados no representan ningún peligro para la humanidad.
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Microscopic black holes differ significantly from their cosmic counterparts. They would have minimal gravitational effects and pose no threat to Earth.
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Hasnain Matloob
Writer at Factual America who published a 2024 explainer on CERN's Large Hadron Collider and black-hole safety.

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The LHC does not produce black holes that pose any risk to our planet.
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And in the meantime, we can all thank the Large Hadron Collider for not churning out a mini black hole that would destroy the earth every time scientists turn it on.
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Grace Abels
PolitiFact reporter covering misinformation and online claims.

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CERN scientists did not end the world 12 years ago. This claim is satire.
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Espen Haug
Researcher at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences who studies gravity, black holes, and theoretical physics.

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However, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) does not appear powerful enough, providing another reason to build and design particle accelerators that are even more powerful than those currently at CERN.
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Jonathan Strickland
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CERN scientists say that if the LHC does create black holes, they will be very small, harmless and will decay almost instantaneously.
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Teyit fact-check reporter covering misinformation claims.

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Bunlardan en yaygını olan Büyük Hadron Çarpıştırıcısı'nın kozmolojik anlamda bir kara delik ya da başka bir evrene geçiş portalı açacağı iddiasını yalanlamış.
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However, both the timing and the nature of CERN's work have been misrepresented in the post. CERN's equipment was already operational in March, a full month prior to the eclipse, and the technology is not capable of creating a portal or a black hole.
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CERN's equipment began operating in March, well before the eclipse, and the technology is nowhere near strong enough to open a portal or a black hole.
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Loreben Tuquero
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No, it won't "open a door to another dimension," and no, it won't "generate black holes in the cosmological sense."
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Gabrielle Settles
USA Today fact-check journalist who reported on false claims about CERN, the Large Hadron Collider, and black holes.

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CERN's equipment began operating in March, a month before the eclipse, and the technology is nowhere near strong enough to open a portal or a black hole.
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Brian Cox
British physicist and science communicator known for explaining particle physics and cosmology to the public.

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Anyone who says the LHC will destroy the world is a twat.
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Popular science and explainer publication.

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CERN insists its research, including that of microscopic black holes, is perfectly safe, but some theorists believe it could cause a collapse of the entire universe.
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Despite these theories, CERN's work, including attempts to create tiny black holes for studying antimatter, is conducted under strict safety protocols, with the organization and the scientific community affirming the research poses no threat to the p...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
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In principle, yes. In practice, no. That's what you need to do to ensure these things are safe.
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Brian Greene
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People worried you'd create a little black hole that would swallow up Switzerland and then the rest of Europe. But colleagues did the calculation and showed it wasn't something we should worry about.
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Alie Ward
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No, the LHC is not creating black holes. It's not creating portals to somewhere else.
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Ronald Gamble Jr
Theoretical astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

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No, the LHC is not creating black holes. We know black holes don't form that way. We're safe.
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Óscar del Barco Novillo
Associate professor of physics (optics) at the University of Murcia and author of a 2024 expert explainer on laboratory micro-black holes.

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Si en algún momento somos capaces de generar un microagujero negro, el mundo no se destruirá, pero habrá que sentarse a tomar aliento.
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International particle-physics collaboration operating the ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

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A search for quantum black holes in electron+jet and muon+jet invariant mass spectra is performed with 140 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected by the ATLAS detector in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider. The observed...
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Mark Johnson
Science reporter at The Washington Post covering physics, history of science, and related topics.

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In other words, any black hole created by the collider would be far too small to pose any risk to the planet.
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Lead Stories fact-check reporter covering science and misinformation claims.

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It is crucial to note that extensive scientific research has been conducted to evaluate the safety and feasibility of black hole production at the LHC. The consensus among the scientific community is that the energies reached by the collider are far ...
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Thomas Hertog
Belgian theoretical physicist at KU Leuven and longtime collaborator of Stephen Hawking.

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It would be a tiny black hole, for sure, with a fleeting existence, for it would instantly evaporate through the emission of Hawking radiation.
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Flip Tanedo
Theoretical particle physicist at the University of California, Riverside.

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We were pretty sure that little black holes evaporate and would be relatively harmless.
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National Science Foundation
United States federal agency that funds research and publishes official science explainers.

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The closest known black hole to Earth is believed to be 1,000 light-years away, so don't fret — we are not getting sucked in.
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Dr. Universe
Washington State University's science Q&A project for curious kids and families.

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The good news is there’s no way you’ll ever get sucked into a black hole. You would have to get really close to one. The nearest black hole is about 1,500 light years away.
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Gary Arndt
Host and writer of Everything Everywhere Daily, where he publishes educational history and science explainers.

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The Large Hadron Collider would need to be about 35 times more powerful to even theoretically create a micro-black hole.
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Sono oggetti del cosmo tanto affascinanti quanto temibili, ma oggi la tecnologia è lontana dal permettere di crearne uno sulla Terra. E se anche in futuro fosse realizzato, un buco nero artificiale non costituirebbe una minaccia.
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Sarebbe probabilmente di massa così bassa che la sua influenza gravitazionale sarebbe relativamente piccola. In realtà non divorerebbe così tanta materia.
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Physics blog by a former theoretical particle physicist writing accessible explanations about gravity, quantum field theory, and collider physics.

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If the LHC could destroy the world, cosmic rays would have already done so.
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Harald Lesch

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Das schwarze Loch hätte also überhaupt keine Wirkung. Also selbst wenn schwarze Löcher entstünden, und man achte hier bitte auf den Konjunktiv, wäre das völlig unerheblich.
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Nate Trela
USA Today journalist and fact-check reporter who covered claims about CERN and the Large Hadron Collider.

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CERN lacks the capability to create a world-destroying black hole, according to experts.
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Dejan Stojkovic
Professor of cosmology and physics at the University at Buffalo who commented on LHC black-hole safety in 2022.

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Any black holes that could be produced by the LHC would be microscopic, and they would immediately evaporate since they are no longer stable.
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John Loeffler
Science and technology journalist who wrote about particle physics and the Large Hadron Collider for Interesting Engineering.

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And if a micro black hole were even possible, it would vanish just as quickly as it was created.
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Kareem El-Badry
Astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian known for research on black holes and binary stars.

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Take the Solar System, put a black hole where the Sun is, and the Sun where the Earth is, and you get this system.
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Louise Lerner
Science and environment writer at UChicago News covering astronomy and university research.

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Even if the sun itself turned into a black hole, it would be too far away from us to suck us in.
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Naomi Dinmore
Science writer at CERN covering particle-physics experiments and research developments.

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Millions of cosmic rays bombard the Earth's atmosphere every second. Primary cosmic rays can have very high energies - above 10^17 eV - similar to those of the high-energy collisions that are produced in the LHC.
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Matt Strassler
Theoretical physicist and science writer who explained why CERN cannot make dangerous black holes in 2022.

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Even if you magically converted the Earth's entire rest mass, via E=mc2, into the energy of two beams of particles, and funneled the two beams into a small place all at the same time, you still couldn't even make a human-scale black hole.
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Stéphanie Roccia
Particle physicist and associate professor at Université Grenoble Alpes, quoted by AFP on LHC safety in 2022.

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Ces collisions de protons au LHC font des particules excessivement légères, et donc elles créeraient un trou noir de la masse qu'elles ont, c'est-à-dire infiniment léger. Il ne pourrait pas attirer quoi que ce soit, il serait moins attractif qu'un ca...
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Clara Nellist

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While the science CERN is doing at the LHC is groundbreaking, they are simply recreating collisions that happen in our atmosphere all the time. For billions of years this has been happening in our universe.
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Elliott Lipeles
Professor of physics at the University of Pennsylvania who works on experimental particle physics at CERN.

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If this generated dangerous black holes, then the Earth has already been zapped by much higher-energy collisions from cosmic rays billions of times.
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AFP's fact-checking division.

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Contrary to the posts online, scientists and a CERN safety report say any black holes created in the process would be microscopic and harmless.
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Rob Lever
AFP USA journalist and fact-check reporter covering CERN misinformation in 2022 and 2024.

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Social media posts claim a particle collider at a European nuclear research laboratory can create black holes with the potential to swallow Earth or create cataclysmic effects. This is false; scientists and an independent safety assessment have concl...
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Elliot Lipeles
Particle physicist at the University of Pennsylvania quoted by AFP on LHC black-hole safety in 2022.

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These claims have been thoroughly studied and there is no risk.
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David Miller
Professor of physics at the University of Chicago quoted by AFP on Large Hadron Collider safety in 2022.

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Particles are hitting the atmosphere of the Earth all the time at much higher energies than we can create in the laboratory. If a black hole is being created in the lab, it means it is being created in the atmosphere all the time.
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San Antonio local TV news outlet that shared a July 2022 VERIFY post saying CERN did not create a cosmic black hole.

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CERN's particle accelerator July 5 event didn't create a cosmic black hole. The machine also can't shift time and space, like viral conspiracy theories claim.
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Sudeep Paul
Journalist at Open magazine who covered CERN and LHC conspiracy theories in 2022.

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The world did not end on July 5, nor did we hear of a portal opening to another dimension.
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New Orleans local TV news outlet that shared a July 2022 VERIFY post rejecting claims that CERN could create a dangerous black hole.

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Any black hole produced would be smaller than a subatomic particle and vanish in a fraction of a second. Other claims are pure fiction.
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James Felton
IFLScience senior staff writer covering science and space.

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Any microscopic black holes the LHC might produce would collapse almost instantly and could not engulf Earth.
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There is no evidence that CERN opened a portal to the future, to hell, or any other dimension other than the current one, or that it opened up a black hole.
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UK paranormal and unexplained-phenomena publication that also publishes science explainers and claim assessments.

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Scientists aren't at all sure if quantum black holes can exist, but if they do appear they would be perfectly safe and would give scientists a chance to learn about nature's most mysterious force – gravity.
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Snopes journalist covering misinformation and science claims.

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Although it's true, as noted above, that CERN started operating the LHC after an extended period of downtime for upgrades and maintenance, there is no evidence that CERN opened a portal to the future, to hell, or any other dimension other than the cu...
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Austin local TV news outlet that shared a July 2022 VERIFY post rejecting CERN black-hole conspiracy claims.

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CERN's particle accelerator July 5 event didn't create a cosmic black hole. The machine also can't shift time and space, like viral conspiracy theories claim.
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Local TV news outlet that shared a July 2022 VERIFY post debunking claims that CERN created a cosmic black hole.

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CERN's particle accelerator July 5 event didn't create a cosmic black hole. The machine also can't shift time and space, like viral conspiracy theories claim.
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Jacksonville local TV news outlet that shared a July 2022 VERIFY post explaining why CERN cannot create a dangerous black hole.

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Any black hole produced would be smaller than a subatomic particle and vanish in a fraction of a second.
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Maine local TV news outlet that shared a July 2022 VERIFY post saying CERN's accelerator cannot create a cosmic black hole.

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No, CERN's particle accelerator can't create a cosmic black hole.
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Minnesota local TV news outlet that shared a July 2022 VERIFY post debunking CERN black-hole conspiracy claims.

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Any black hole produced would be smaller than a subatomic particle and vanish in a fraction of a second. Other claims are pure fiction.
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Daisy Dobrijevic
Space journalist and editor at Space.com covering astronomy, spaceflight, and related science topics.

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People have also worried that the LHC might produce a "mini black hole," but even if this happened — which is unlikely — it would be unbelievably tiny, and so unstable that it would vanish within a fraction of a second.
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Robert Lea
Science journalist at Space.com with a background in physics and astronomy.

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It's a common misconception that black holes suck in material. Instead, they just capture in their gravity any matter that ventures too close. So, if the sun were replaced by a black hole, Earth would remain stable and safe in its orbit albeit robbed...
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Andrew May
Astrophysicist and science writer with a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Manchester University; contributor to Live Science, Space.com, BBC Science Focus, and others.

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People have also worried that the LHC might produce a mini black hole, but even if this happened - which is unlikely - it would be unbelievably tiny, and so unstable that it would vanish within a fraction of a second, according to The Guardian.
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Lia Medeiros
Astrophysicist and black hole researcher affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study and the Black Hole Initiative.

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Don’t let fear of getting sucked into a black hole keep you up at night... you’d have to get really close for that to happen. From far away, a black hole behaves like any other object with a lot of gravity, like a star.
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Paul Cornish
Science communicator and writer for We The Curious, publishing public-facing explainers on astronomy and physics.

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Even if a black hole took the place of our Sun, Earth wouldn’t get sucked in. If the black hole was the same mass as the Sun, then it would have the same gravity as the Sun.
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Doug Gobielle
Physics and astronomy instructor at Villanova University who comments on black-hole physics and astrophysics.

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Black holes, generally speaking, are awful at consuming matter.
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Local news outlet that shared a VERIFY fact-check rejecting CERN black-hole conspiracy claims.

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No, CERN's particle accelerator can't create a cosmic black hole.
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Local news outlet that shared a VERIFY fact-check rejecting CERN black-hole conspiracy claims.

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CERN's particle accelerator July 5 event didn't create a cosmic black hole. The machine also can't shift time and space, like viral conspiracy theories claim.
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Phil Plait
Astronomer and science communicator known as the Bad Astronomer and author of Death From the Skies!.

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Replace the sun with a black hole, we wouldn't even really notice.
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Seerat Gill
Science writer at ScienceABC covering astronomy and space science for general audiences.

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There is no confirmed black hole anywhere in the solar system, and no evidence that one has ever passed through it. The nearest known black hole is Gaia BH1, about 1,560 light-years away... Earth is in no danger of being swallowed.
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James Beacham
Particle physicist at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and member of the ATLAS collaboration, researching dark matter, gravitons, and quantum black holes.

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So there's no possible way we're gonna make a black hole out of two protons at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Begoña de la Cruz Martínez
Doctor of physics and researcher in CIEMAT's Particle Physics Unit, who explained LHC micro-black-hole safety in 2021.

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Pero estos microagujeros negros, simulados, no lo olvides, son inestables y se desintegrarían sin oportunidad para acumular nada, produciendo una variedad de partículas en el estado final, que serían detectadas en los experimentos.
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Paul Delaney
Professor of physics and astronomy at York University and longtime public astronomy educator.

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Will Earth be swallowed by a black hole? Absolutely not.
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Albert De Roeck
Particle physicist at CERN and adjunct professor at UC Davis, specializing in new-physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider.

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Quantum Black Holes are harmless for the environment: they will decay within less than 10⁻²⁷ seconds.
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Delilah Gates
Theoretical physicist who has discussed black holes, quantum gravity, and collider limits in public science interviews.

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At least in the energies we have with the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, we cannot throw particles together with enough force to cause tiny black holes.
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Sabine Hossenfelder
Theoretical physicist, science communicator.

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Indeed, if the extra dimensions are large enough, you could create black holes at the Large Hadron Collider. At least in theory. In practice, the Large Hadron Collider did not produce black holes, which means that if the extra dimensions exist, they’...
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Stéphanie Juneau
Astronomer at NSF's NOIRLab whose public outreach includes black hole explainers.

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Despite what the movies tell you, black holes don’t suck up material like a vacuum cleaner.
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Sara Rigby
Science journalist and writer for BBC Science Focus covering space, physics, and astronomy.

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A black hole's gravity is incredibly strong, but other than that, it's no different to any other type of gravity.
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David Wakeham
Theoretical physicist with a PhD in physics from the University of British Columbia, working on quantum gravity and black holes.

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We’re going to use this to do some fun stuff, first guessing the time until entropic heat death, and secondly, giving a heuristic argument that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) does not produce dangerous microscopic black holes.
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Janna Levin
Theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Barnard College and Columbia University.

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If you were going to make a black hole, it would evaporate too quickly. It would just go off like firecrackers.
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Pierre Korysko
Accelerator physicist with a PhD from the University of Oxford and a CERN postdoctoral researcher in 2021; now a research associate at Oxford.

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However, there is no danger! Those black holes at CERN would be microscopic and would evaporate immediately.
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Science explainer publication focused on evidence-based articles.

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This means that any black hole forming in an accelerator would not be in a position to do any damage.
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Charlotte Phillips
Science writer and interviewer at Facts&Reasons, publishing explainers on particle accelerators and scientific research.

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This means that if a black hole were produced in an accelerator (which is unlikely, as the masses involved are far too low), it would be minuscule, and also subject to shrinkage, leading it to decay before it could hit the accelerator walls. This mea...
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Paul Sutter
Astrophysicist, science communicator, and contributor to Space.com.

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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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Sean Carroll
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But as we said, it didn't happen and nothing happened other than the Higgs boson, so there's been no evidence so far for black holes at the LHC. Probably those models were just on the wrong track, and if they are, if they're not right, then there's n...
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Evelyn Thomson
Experimental particle physicist and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania; helped design the ATLAS experiment at CERN's LHC.

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Steven Hawking, who's very well known, I think his predictions would say that those micro black holes would evaporate, so they would be able to emit Hawking radiation, which is named after him. And so they would evaporate and disappear.
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Katie Mack
Theoretical astrophysicist and Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute.

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The Large Hadron Collider is not powerful enough to destroy the universe.
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Hank Green
Science communicator, author, and co-creator of the educational YouTube channel SciShow.

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If the LHC made a black hole, it would be so small that it would radiate away all its energy in about an octillionth of a nanosecond.
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Fabio Pacucci
Astrophysicist at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Harvard's Black Hole Initiative who studies black holes and quasars.

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The risks for our planet are negligible, but they learn a lot.
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CERN says the collider poses no danger to Earth, and nature already produces similar high-energy collisions.
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The CERN facility’s collider does not pose a credible threat to Earth.
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The LHC’s particle collisions pose no threat to Earth or human existence.
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The collisions generated inside the accelerator are extremely small in scale and pose no threat to Earth or human existence.
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The internet had an explanation within hours. Portals to other dimensions. Microscopic black holes. A broken timeline. A cover-up too dangerous to admit. All of it was wrong.
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If collisions like the LHC’s could make a planet-eating black hole, nature would already have done it many times over.
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Science YouTube channel covering physics and cosmology questions.

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The real question is not whether CERN will destroy Earth, but what 'creating a black hole' would physically mean at LHC scales.
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While the imagery of a laboratory-grown abyss is the stuff of science fiction, the rigorous scientific reality is far more reassuring.
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Science explainer channel publishing long-form educational videos about physics and cosmology.

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A microscopic black hole created at the LHC, with a mass measured in a few teraelectronvolts, would exist for an almost impossibly short amount of time. Current predictions put its lifetime at about ten to the minus twenty-seventh of a second.
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The 'black hole destroys Earth' rumor is worth confronting directly, because the real physics does not support a catastrophic outcome.
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The LHC is not uniquely dangerous because nature already produces far more energetic particle collisions than it can.
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these exotic phenomena pose no threat to humanity or our planet's safety.
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even at immense energies, any micro black holes that could theoretically form would be subatomic, exist for a mere fraction of a second, and instantly disintegrate due to Hawking Radiation, posing no risk to our planet.
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Hawking radiation, which dictates that any microscopic black holes would immediately evaporate in a burst of energy, rendering them harmless.
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nature's own particle accelerators-cosmic rays-constantly create collisions far more powerful than the LHC's, proving that such events are harmless.
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Could the Large Hadron Collider bring about the end of Earth? Debunking the Myth of Black Holes!
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Could the Large Hadron Collider Destroy Earth? Debunking the Black Hole Myth!
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these collider-generated black holes are merely microscopic and pose no real threat to Earth.
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while mini black hole-like states can exist in experiments, they pose no threat to our world.
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any micro black holes hypothetically produced would evaporate instantly due to Hawking radiation and pose no threat.
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the LHC poses no real threat, despite needing 10^15 times more energy than it currently produces to even begin approaching mini black hole creation.
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So any black hole created in a lab would disappear before it could gobble up anything.
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Science explainer channel publishing educational videos and shorts about physics, astronomy, and scientific misconceptions.

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Could the large hadron collider actually create a black hole that would endanger the Earth? It's incredibly unlikely!
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Space & Physics
Space and physics explainer social media channel.

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The large collider's black-hole scare is a myth, and the actual physics tells a much less dramatic story.
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World Of Science Media
Science media production brand behind educational videos about black holes, particle physics, and astronomy.

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If it were so produced, a microscopic black hole would evaporate immediately, producing a distinctive spray of sub-atomic particles of normal matter.
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Anton Petrov
Science communicator and educational video creator known for astronomy and physics explainers on YouTube.

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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about CERN and why it never produced a destructive black hole
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The Cosmos News
Science explainer channel publishing videos about astronomy, particle physics, and space-related claims.

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Just as we know that the Earth is safe under the natural bombardment from cosmic rays, so we know that recreating these collisions poses no threat to the Earth.
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Eric E. Johnson
Legal scholar and former University of North Dakota law professor who analyzed LHC catastrophe-risk litigation.

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Scientists’ conclusions about risk cannot be taken at face value. Their assurances must be discounted by the probability of their own error. [...] It does not follow that LHC risk is zero: An accurate assessment of risk must include the possibility t...
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Otto E. Rössler
German chemist and chaos theorist associated with the University of Tübingen who publicly warned about LHC black-hole risks.

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Black holes DO NOT EVAPORATE — hence they can only grow. [...] Inside matter, a resident black hole will not grow linerally but rather — via self-organization — form a so-called “miniquasar”: an electro-gravitational engine that grows exponentially, ...
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Rainer Plaga
German astrophysicist and author of a 2008 paper arguing that collider-produced black-hole risks were not fully excluded.

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A plausible scenario in which these black holes accrete ambient matter at the Eddington limit shortly after their production, thereby emitting Hawking radiation that would be harmful to Earth and/or CERN and its surroundings, is described.
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Luis Sancho
Spanish cosmology writer and LHC-safety litigant whose 2008 affidavit argued for stopping the collider.

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Theoretical calculations show that the LHC could produce two kinds of dark matter—black holes and strange, ultradense quark matter—that are extremely dangerous, as both have been theoretically proven to swallow in a chain reaction the entirety of Ear...
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Walter L. Wagner
Former nuclear safety officer and LHC-safety litigant who studied cosmic-ray physics at UC Berkeley.

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Despite assurances from scientists at CERN and around the world, there was no proof a mini-black hole would disappear. [...] It’s just as possible that the tiny black hole would be stable and start chewing up normal matter.
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