Do you remember the hype that surrounds Large Hadron Collider, before it goes live? Everyone is scared it will create a black hole ultimately capable of destroying our Earth.
A simulated image of light emitted by a supermassive black hole binary system. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center over FlickrCC BY 2.0
Of course, now that we know that hasn’t happened, no gravitational singularity has been created up to this point. However, if you wanted to create a small black hole – for any purpose you can think of – what would it take to achieve this goal? Can we create a black hole at will? And, by the way, what is a black hole laser? The following video discusses this interesting theoretical concept:
