Hadron Collider: Will we be sucked in?

Better than on the edge of a desk!

THE “big bang machine” which some fear could cause the end of the world will be switched back on in October.<

The £4bn large hadron collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator.

Buried deep under the the Franco-Swiss border at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern), the machine is designed to collide opposing particle beams at near light speed.
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Man-made Black Hole (credit: Fresh News)

Man-made black holes, sounds a bit dicey to me.

A team of physicists have created an artificial black hole in their lab that traps sound instead of light, in an attempt to detect the theoretical Hawking radiation.

The radiation, proposed by physicist Stephen Hawking more than 30 years ago, causes black holes to evaporate over time.
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ESA (Image by C. Carreau)

Using indirect observations, a team of astronomers has gotten the closest look ever at the region of space around a supermassive black hole.

It is tough to image something that devours any electromagnetic radiation that gets too close to it, light included. But, since black holes warp space so severely, once mass or energy gets too close, it can no longer be observed by someone in our universe. Because of this, astronomers who study black holes are forced to use less direct methods for determining the nature of these beasts.
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