What If a Black Hole Opened at CERN?
Let’s roll back a few days. This is CERN, the Nuclear Research laboratory on the border of France and Switzerland. It features the most powerful particle accelerator on Earth, the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC. What does it do? It accelerates and collides particles at 99.99% of the speed of light. And maybe, it could produce the very first lab-grown black hole. How big would that black hole be? What precautions would you need to take not to get sucked in it? And how long would it take it to destroy the entire planet?
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September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
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@kamikazu4392
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
Humanity is nowhere in a situation to create a black hole.
@jtgraham24
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
I'm pretty sure the galaxy has pretty much been eating up by cerns black hole, happened in 2012
@checkmc2
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
Someone just commented that you can actually hack into cern and make a black hole which made a new fear unlock
@MrDmadness
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
The title should be "What if something literally imposdiblle hapoened" .. black holes require more mass than all of earth contains
@MihirPhukan7
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
POCKET UNIVERSE. FINAL ITS NO MORE A FICTION. SIMPSON IS ALSO TRUE
@II-JuggKing-II
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
There portals bro
@JamesSpencer-f7u
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
There is one open already on earth, its been named Whooee Goldberg.
@davidgrisez
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
The Large Hadron Collider will never produce an earth destroying black hole. About the worst thing that can happen to the Large Hadron Collider is a magnetic quench in one or more of the superconducting magnets. This has already happened when the Large Hadron Collider was first put into service. The worst that happened was a section of superconducting magnets were badly damaged and needed considerable repair work. However the only people that noticed the malfunction event were the people inside the Large Hadron Collider Control Room. No one in the nearby city of Geneva knew that anything bad happened to the Large Hadron Collider.
@JonCampos-kh2bw
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
We have a black hole that lives in the White House and he’s sucking the life out of America.
@Gambit-hd5cd
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
It did open a black hole in 2008. We are currently being devoured. It is still 2008 outside of the black hole.
@F1NALB0SS1
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
Just smash two black holes together see what happens
@Regine-u5p
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
Let's back of fhew days
@DoozerStuff
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
Ain't gonna happen, midas touch more likely to happen than a black hole or maybe even trigger dimension collapse… you need lots and lots of mass, talking stellar amounts…
@aniksarker05
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
Bummer!!
@bluesky77776
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
What if a supernova exploded ON earth?
@Patriot47-q8z
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
Yup they done it
@foxmacnamara8809
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
How do you know what you're saying here to be fact?? The ONLY FACT is that the people at CERN have no clue what they are creating or the potential side effects of it.
@peanutfirth1818
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
They fr got stranger things clips up in here
@CaptIzzy-hp7pu
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
United States newest weapon, rocket carrys multiple small black holes and delivers to the enemy,or pelosi, Biden and Clinton home.problem solved
@CaptIzzy-hp7pu
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
What is inside a black hole
@Kwasniewicz-Karol
September 14, 2025 at 1:48 am
Such a collider could soon destroy the entire universe and the whole world, opening black holes that probably already exist. 2025
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