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I am not very versed in physics but if it was possible to collide antimatter with antimatter would that create a black hole?
Ebonscaith said:I am not very versed in physics but if it was possible to collide antimatter with antimatter would that create a black hole?
Jonathan Scott said:matter seems to be more plentiful, it's easier to do it with matter.
Ebonscaith said:I don't have any worries about black holes being created. To be more precise on my question I was talking more towards nuclear fission (i think) in that process the collision of the atoms which are matter creates an explosion. So if antimatter has atoms and they were to collide would that make a massive implosion hence a black hole?
Sure it could. Not likely, but not impossible. Of course, such a micro black hole would not accrete and would evaporate quickly. In fact, I read somewhere that we might not even know for sure if a micro black hole had formed during a particle collision, because such an event is nearly indistinguishable from a particle collision that does not result in the formation of a black hole. I must have read this in "The Black Hole Wars" by Leonard Susskind.hellv1l said:...a black hole can't simply be created in an experiment like this happenig in CERN...
Scientists Make Fake Black Hole in a Phone Line
"We actually made pairs of black-hole white-hole horizons (80 million per second). They exist only as long as our light pulses propagate through the fibre (about 10 nanoseconds) and they act only on light. In other words, they are completely harmless."
If you want to make a real black hole then you need to take some mass M and squeeze it inside it's Schwartzschild radius rs where
rs = (2GM)/c2
G = universal constant of gravitation, approx 6.6x10-11m3kg -1s-2
c = speed of light, approx= 3x108ms-1
Or else you could do as I did yesterday and buy a very large rubber sheet. If you are in New York there is a rubber shop on Canal Street and they sell sheets of rubber by the yard !(which is a short meter). Punch a small hole in the rubber sheet, get a plastic disk, punch a hole through the disk and thread a string around the disk and through the hole of the sheet. Have about eight children holding the sheet taught and another child under the sheet pulling down on the string attached to the disk. This forms a very steep depression in the sheet with vertical sides, like the potential of a black hole in space time.
Don't fall in !
Yes, it is theoretically possible for an antimatter collision to create a black hole. When matter and antimatter come into contact, they annihilate each other, releasing a large amount of energy. If this energy is concentrated enough, it could create a black hole.
The likelihood of an antimatter collision creating a black hole depends on several factors, including the amount of antimatter involved and the energy released during the collision. In most cases, the amount of energy released is not enough to create a black hole, but in certain extreme scenarios, it is possible.
If an antimatter collision did create a black hole, the black hole would continue to grow as it absorbed more matter and energy. The black hole would also release a large amount of radiation, making it detectable by telescopes and other instruments.
Currently, there is no direct evidence of black holes being created by antimatter collisions. However, there are some observations of gamma ray bursts that could potentially be explained by black holes created from antimatter collisions.
No, it is highly unlikely that an antimatter collision with Earth would create a black hole that would destroy the planet. Even if a black hole was created, it would be too small to have any significant effect on Earth's orbit or structure.