Mini Black Holes
Mini Black Holes
Some black holes are theorized to be nearly as old as the Big Bang, which is hypothesized to have started our Universe 10 to 20 billion years ago. The rapid early expansion of some parts of the dense hot matter in this nascent Universe is said to have so compressed less rapidly moving parts that the latter became superdense and collapsed further, forming black holes. Among the holes so created may be the submicroscopic mini-black holes.
A mini-black hole may be as small as an atomic particle but contain as much mass (material) as Mount Everest. Never underestimate the power of a mini-black hole. If some event caused it to decompress, it would be as if millions of hydrogen bombs were simultaneously detonated.
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