What happens if you’re hit by a primordial black hole?
Back in the early 2000s I gave a public talk called “Seven Ways a Black Hole Can Kill…
Impossibly powerful ‘ghost particle’ that slammed into Earth may have come from an exploding black hole — and it could upend both particle physics and cosmology
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Physicists Think They Saw a Black Hole Explode
Black holes are born from the explosive deaths of stars. But can black holes themselves explode? Nobody knows…
Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino May Signal First Glimpse of Primordial Black Hole Explosion
Physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst argue that an ultra-high-energy neutrino detected by the KM3NeT experiment could…
‘Impossible’ Particle That Crashed into Earth With 100,000 Times the Energy of the LHC May Actually Be from an Exploding Black Hole
Illustration of exploading primordial black hole. Credit: ZME Science/AI-generated. In 2023, a subatomic particle smashed into the Mediterranean…
A Physicist Ran the Numbers on What Would Happen if a Tiny Black Hole Passed Through Your Body
Credit: ZME Science/Midjourney. A tiny black hole zipping through your body sounds like the kind of death dreamed…
The most violent event in the universe could be visible from Earth in less than 10 years
The universe is a vast place in which many cosmic events occur regularly. And in less than ten…
James Webb Telescope Discovers Massive Naked Black Hole in Early Universe
In the vast expanse of cosmic history, astronomers have long pieced together a narrative of the universe’s infancy,…