Not exact matches
Today, some 25 years later, the Large Hadron Collider at Cern has just been switched on, prompting fears in some quarters that the
collisions it produces could
generate a mini
black hole that could swallow the earth.
As early as 2021 it will be joined by the Einstein Probe, a wide - field x-ray sentinel for transient phenomena such as gamma ray bursts and the titanic
collisions of neutron stars or
black holes that
generate gravitational waves.
Gravitational waves detectable from Earth are
generated by
collisions of massive objects, such as when two
black holes or neutron stars merge.
A fraction of those
collisions could
generate microscopic
black holes, which Goldberg and Anchordoqui think would produce a unique brand of particle showers.
By hurling protons together at 14 trillion electron volts, it will create the kinds of high - energy
collisions that are supposed to
generate microscopic
black holes.
The first two detections of gravitational waves
generated by the
collision of two
black holes were reported last year.