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

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Insufficient energy

Several quotes say the LHC is not physically capable of making the kind of black hole imagined in doomsday scenarios. They argue that under relativity it is impossible, or at least that the collider's energies are far too low and nowhere close to what would be needed for a dangerous black hole.

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
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
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.

Matt Strassler · Aug 17, 2022 · full quote
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 too low to create black holes …

Uliana Malashenko · Jun 29, 2023 · full quote

Immediate evaporation

Other quotes treat microscopic black holes as, at most, a speculative possibility but say they would be extremely small, unstable, and short-lived. In that account, they would evaporate almost instantly through Hawking radiation, leaving no time to accrete matter or produce macroscopic effects.

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
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
Any black holes that could be produced by the LHC would be microscopic, smaller than a proton, and would evaporate in a tiny fraction of a second due to Hawking radiation.

Elliot Lipeles · Jul 11, 2022 · full quote
It would be a tiny black hole, for sure, with a fleeting existence, for it would instantly evaporate through the emission of Hawking radiation.

Thomas Hertog · Jun 19, 2023 · 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

Natural collision precedent

A recurring argument is that similar or greater-energy particle collisions already happen naturally through cosmic rays striking the atmosphere. Proponents say that if such collisions could generate world-threatening black holes, Earth and other cosmic structures would not still exist as observed.

The Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays, which are particles produced in outer space, and these cosmic rays can hit the atmosphere with much greater energy than we can create at the LHC. If dangerous black holes could be made in such collisions, the Earth would have been…

David Miller · Jul 11, 2022 · 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
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
“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
“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

Safety reviews and evidence

Several quotes emphasize that scientists, CERN, and safety assessments have repeatedly examined these fears and found no evidence that the LHC poses such a danger. They also describe shutdowns and interruptions as routine maintenance or upgrades rather than responses to an emergency.

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 concluded that any microscopic blac…

Rob Lever · Jul 13, 2022 · full quote
Especialistas y el propio CERN señalaron a Chequeado que no existe evidencia científica que respalde estas afirmaciones.

Eugenia Leis Montero · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
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.

Brenda Barragán · Jul 6, 2026 · full quote
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.

Brandon Vigliarolo · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
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 planet.

Diana Brown · Mar 7, 2024 · full quote

Middle ground

Speculative edge cases

Some quotes distinguish between standard physics and more speculative possibilities rather than speaking only in absolutes. One says relativity rules out LHC black holes but that some speculative theories allow microscopic ones that would immediately disintegrate, while another says a world-consuming black hole would require a stack of conditions and still probably will not happen.

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 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

Insights

The quotes repeatedly rely on two different safety claims: either the LHC cannot produce a dangerous black hole at all, or any microscopic black hole would disappear almost instantly.
The cosmic-ray comparison is one of the most common arguments, with multiple speakers treating natural high-energy impacts as a real-world test of the risk claim.
Several sources discuss black-hole fears alongside claims about portals, wormholes, or other dimensions, suggesting these concerns are often bundled together in public discussion.
The provided sources span CERN institutions, outside physicists, journalists, fact-checkers, and science communicators, yet they largely repeat the same basic safety rationale.
A small nuance within the quotes is that some speakers acknowledge highly speculative conditions under which a black hole could be imagined, but they still do not frame that as a credible current threat.

In the provided quotes, the discussion is largely one-sided: the sources focus on explaining why the black-hole doomsday scenario is rejected rather than presenting competing risk claims. The main rationales are that the collider lacks the needed energy, that any microscopic black holes would evaporate before affecting matter, and that nature already produces comparable high-energy collisions without catastrophic results. A smaller nuance within that overall view is that some speakers acknowledge speculative edge cases, but still do not treat them as a credible present danger.

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Large general-purpose particle physics experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.

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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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Argentine fact-checking outlet covering misinformation and public-interest reporting.

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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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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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“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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“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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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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Science publication that posted a 2026 explainer on the LHC shutdown and why it poses no danger to Earth.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If the LHC could destroy the world, cosmic rays would have already done so.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Science news account that posted a 2026 summary on the LHC shutdown and cosmic-ray safety argument.

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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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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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Elliot Lipeles
Particle physicist at the University of Pennsylvania quoted by AFP on LHC black-hole safety in 2022.

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Any black holes that could be produced by the LHC would be microscopic, smaller than a proton, and would evaporate in a tiny fraction of a second due to Hawking radiation.
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Professor of physics at the University of Chicago quoted by AFP on Large Hadron Collider safety in 2022.

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The Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays, which are particles produced in outer space, and these cosmic rays can hit the atmosphere with much greater energy than we can create at the LHC. If dangerous black holes could be made in such collisi...
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