Reply to post: Re: I understood that tiny blackholes were very unstable.

Sorry, say boffins, the LHC still hasn't sucked us into a black hole

Mike Bell

Re: I understood that tiny blackholes were very unstable.

That's Prof. Hawking's baby: The smaller the black hole, the faster it fizzles away to nothingness courtesy of Hawking Radiation.

Don't ask me how that would allow a large black hole to form in the first place. I'm not clever enough to answer that.

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