Slashdot: Atom Smasher May Create "Black Saturns"
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 13, @07:26PM
from the distinctive-Hawking-radiation dept.
David Shiga writes
"If we ever make black holes on Earth, they might be much stranger objects than the star-swallowing monsters known to exist in space. According to a new theory, any black hole that pops out of the Large Hadron Collider under construction in Switzerland might be surrounded by a black ring — forming a microscopic 'black Saturn'. This could happen if extra dimensions exist, as string theory suggests, and if they are large enough." An evocative excerpt from the article: "...there is an outside chance that in a few years in a tunnel....More
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