What if a Tiny Black Hole Shot Through Your Body? A Physicist Did The Math
Physicist Robert Scherrer calculated the minimum primordial black hole mass at about 140 billion metric tons needed to cause human injury, with collision chances about once every quintillion years.
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What Would Happen If a Black Hole Ripped Through Your Body
How big must a black hole be to inflict serious injuries—or even death—when whooshing through a person’s body? Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . This odd cosmic question was ripped from the pages of a 1974 science-fiction story, “The Hole Man,” by author Larry Niven, in which a scientist visiting Mars kills his surly captain by unleashing a black hole from an alien device.“I wanted to see if this would be possib…
What Would A Small Black Hole Do To The Human Body? Robert Scherrer Aims To Answer That
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small black hole tried to pass through your body? Image credit: eli007 – Pixabay A photo of Robert ScherrerAn article by Professor of Physics Robert Scherrer in the […]
Black holes are often seen as cosmic ogres that can swallow and tear stars and planets when they contain at least a few solar masses. However, the Milky Way could be bathed in a gas of much lighter and smaller black miniholes, produced during the...
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