In 1974, science fiction author Larry Niven wrote a murder mystery with an interesting premise: Could you kill a man with a ...
Scientists are exploring whether primordial black holes, formed after the Big Bang, could be lethal if one passed through a ...
In science fiction, black holes often appear as cosmic monsters, devouring everything in their path. But what if one, smaller ...
A recent study explores the effects of tiny black holes on the human body, finding that while tidal forces would cause local ...
According to the study, asteroid-mass black holes (less than a micrometer across) will cause relatively minor damage locally ...
(To our knowledge, tiny black holes cannot form today.) But would these "primordial" black holes still exist, roughly 14 billion years after the big bang? Surprisingly, the answer depends on the ...
What if invisible black holes were quietly passing through our solar system without us even noticing? While that might sound like a plot from a sci-fi ... Continue Reading → ...