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Lab fireball 'may be black hole'
A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said.

It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.

Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core of the fireball has a striking similarity to a black hole.

His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org and is reported in New Scientist magazine.

When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken down into particles called quarks and gluons.

These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles produced by the beam collisions.

But Nastase, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, says there is something unusual about it.

Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball as were predicted by calculations.

The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking" radiation.

However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole, it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity is not the dominant force in a black hole.

Story from BBC NEWS:
news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-...357613.stm

Published: 2005/03/17 11:30:41 GMT

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So when will we be making bombs out of this?

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...too be continued

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That was intelligent and useful Mudd.

But it certainly is what Ive come to expect.

Mindless babbling with no intent to either enlighten or inform.

Wonderfull. Bomb delivered little black holes...wonder if we'd get to see what some extremists look like coming out the other end?

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Very thin, but awfully loooooooooooooooooooooooong...

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I was kinda thinking more about propulsion possibilities, but a black hole bomb would be mighty cool too.

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Snipe you better watch out, this bozo's might find the right kind of nuclei that the blackhole lasts too long and NY gets wasted. PA right along with it. These guys scare the hell out of me. Where is my tin foil hat.

Fender
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and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her".
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As long as the project isn't run by Sam Neil, we should be okay...

Dammit, Snipe, you are <i>not</i> talking your way out of this one; the kids caught you fair and square, so grant them their three wishes and hand over your pot of gold!