Has anyone ever created a black hole?

To study the phenomenon more closely, physicists in Israel managed to create a lab-grown, analogue black hole using some thousand atoms. This faux black hole exhibited all properties of a black hole in the state in which it is believed to exist in space.
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Can a human create a black hole?

The energy necessary to produce such a black hole is 39 orders of magnitude greater than the energies available at the Large Hadron Collider, indicating that the LHC cannot produce mini black holes.
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Has anyone ever discovered a black hole?

Now, with the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered an isolated stellar-mass black hole about 5,150 light-years away from Earth, in the direction of the bulge in the center of the Milky Way.
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Can a black hole be artificially created?

Now, after seven years of often solitary study, Jeff Steinhauer, an experimental physicist at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, has created an artificial black hole that seems to emit such 'Hawking radiation' on its own, from quantum fluctuations that emerge from its experimental set-up.
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Has NASA ever found a black hole?

NASA discovers rapidly growing black hole — a "missing link" connecting the origins of the universe that was hiding in plain sight. It's a question that has plagued astronomers for years: How did supermassive black holes, which can weigh billions of times the mass of the sun, grow so large, so quickly?
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Can a wormhole exist?

Einstein's theory of general relativity mathematically predicts the existence of wormholes, but none have been discovered to date. A negative mass wormhole might be spotted by the way its gravity affects light that passes by.
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Can a black hole create a galaxy?

The new theory “gives a general mechanism by which a central black hole can catalyze galaxy formation,” says Stephen Adler, at Princeton University in New Jersey. Adler's new theory is based on the way black holes interact with dark energy, which astronomers think fills the universe.
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Can a super collider create a black hole?

Alas, when looking at all of the scientific evidence and using our most modern understanding of the laws of the universe, there is no way that the LHC can make a black hole. Gravity is simply too weak for this to occur.
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Is Earth in danger of a black hole?

Since this black hole already weighs a few million times the mass of the Sun, there will only be small increases in its mass if it swallows a few more Sun-like stars. “There is no danger of the Earth (located 26,000 light years away from the Milky Way's black hole) being pulled in.
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What planet is 5000 light-years away?

In an unexpected stroke of luck, astronomers have found two planets that resemble smaller versions of Jupiter and Saturn (that's our Saturn in the picture to the right) in a solar system nearly 5000 light years away from Earth.
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Is there a black hole in our solar system 2021?

Even if they make up just a quarter of dark matter, Earth has still encountered a primordial black hole once before and is likely to do so again. Our planet getting hit by a black hole sounds apocalyptic, but it isn't necessarily.
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Has the God particle been found?

Speaking to a packed audience Wednesday morning in Geneva, CERN director general Rolf Heuer confirmed that two separate teams working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are more than 99 percent certain they've discovered the Higgs boson, aka the God particle—or at the least a brand-new particle exactly where they ...
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What are white holes NASA?

White holes are theoretical cosmic regions that function in the opposite way to black holes. Just as nothing can escape a black hole, nothing can enter a white hole. White holes were long thought to be a figment of general relativity born from the same equations as their collapsed star brethren, black holes.
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How many dimensions do we know of?

The world as we know it has three dimensions of space—length, width and depth—and one dimension of time. But there's the mind-bending possibility that many more dimensions exist out there. According to string theory, one of the leading physics model of the last half century, the universe operates with 10 dimensions.
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Is a white hole real?

The short answer, unfortunately, is no. White holes are really just something scientists have imagined — they could exist, but we've never seen one, or even seen clues that one may exist. For now, they are an idea. To put it simply, you can imagine a white hole as being a black hole in reverse.
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Who destroyed the universe?

9 THANOS. In Marvel: The End, Thanos comes into control of the Heart of the Universe, an energy source so powerful that he becomes the universe itself.
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What is the God particle theory?

The media calls the Higgs boson the God particle because, according to the theory laid out by Scottish physicist Peter Higgs and others in 1964, it's the physical proof of an invisible, universe-wide field that gave mass to all matter right after the Big Bang, forcing particles to coalesce into stars, planets, and ...
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Can the LHC destroy the world?

Question: Will the Large Hadron Collider Destroy the Earth? Answer: No. As you might have heard in the news recently, several people are suing to try and get the Large Hadron Collider project canceled. When it finally comes online, the LHC will be the largest, most powerful particle accelerator ever constructed.
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Have we sent anything into a black hole?

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, there is no problem sending a camera (or anything else) into a black hole (meaning that it goes in past the horizon). Getting it (or its photographs) back out is an entirely different issue. This is not possible.
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What is inside a black hole?

The singularity at the center of a black hole is the ultimate no man's land: a place where matter is compressed down to an infinitely tiny point, and all conceptions of time and space completely break down. And it doesn't really exist.
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How did Einstein predict black holes?

The idea of an object in space so massive and dense that light could not escape it has been around for centuries. Most famously, black holes were predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which showed that when a massive star dies, it leaves behind a small, dense remnant core.
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