• Question: Do you think it is possible to create a back hole in a lab

    Asked by anon-174185 to Yewande, Tim, Melanie, Hayley, Carl, Alex on 15 Jun 2018.
    • Photo: Alex Seeney

      Alex Seeney answered on 15 Jun 2018:

      That’s a cool question, and to be honest with you, I’m not completely sure. One of the issues with black holes for us is that we don’t completely understand them – thing that enter them don’t come back out again, so we can’t get pictures of the inside, for example. That would make creating one quite tricky.

    • Photo: Tim Craig

      Tim Craig answered on 18 Jun 2018:

      I would go with no. Not as we currently understand them. The massive gravitational forces they generate would rip the lab apart. Its also not clear how you might go about doing this – getting the necessary concentration of matter to form one in the first place would be incredibly difficult/probably not possible…

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