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Facing Steep Funding Cuts, Scientists Propose Using Black Holes as Particle Colliders Instead of Building New Ones on Earth
- Physicists proposed using high-energy particle collisions near supermassive black holes as a cost-effective alternative to building new supercolliders on Earth.
- This idea emerged due to steep funding cuts to federal science programs, the immense costs and long development times of supercolliders, and the Large Hadron Collider's failure to detect dark matter so far.
- Supermassive black holes at galaxy centers generate violent particle collisions and high-energy jets that may reach or exceed energies planned for future colliders, potentially producing elusive dark matter particles.
- Study co-author Joseph Silk explained that while some particles produced in these high-energy collisions are consumed by the black hole and lost permanently, others are ejected with extraordinary energies that could provide valuable insights complementary to those obtained from Earth-based particle accelerators.
- If detected by observatories like IceCube, particles from black hole collisions might provide evidence for dark matter, suggesting nature's colliders could complement expensive, long-term manmade projects.
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Oxford Mail
thisisoxfordshire.co.ukScientists suggest black holes could serve as natural particle colliders
Scientists could turn to black holes to aid the search for dark matter, a new study by Oxford physicists suggests.
“A Glimpse of the Future”: Scientists Suggest ‘Supermassive’ Alternative to Next Generation Supercolliders
Researchers have suggested using the high-energy collisions that occur within supermassive black holes to find more powerful and cost-effective alternatives to proposed multi-billion-dollar supercolliders. The scientists from Johns Hopkins University believe that using supermassive black holes to search for dark matter, electron neutrinos, and other elusive particles could complement the work of conventional supercolliders and dramatically reduc…
Live Science
MSNFacing steep funding cuts, scientists propose using black holes as particle colliders instead of building new ones on Earth
New calculations have revealed that the super-energetic jets produced by spinning black holes could be a source for elusive dark matter particles.
Black holes don’t behave as we thought, study finds
In 2017, a network of radio telescopes around the world joined forces for an ambitious goal: to study the mysteries of black holes and the powerful jets they unleash. This project, called the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), offered an extraordinary level of detail by combining observations from different places to create a telescope as big as Earth itself. The EHT’s first major observing campaign revealed images of eighteen distant cosmic objects…
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