The most powerful particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider, has not yet created any black holes as some have feared, researchers say. Even if this atom smasher does create black holes, there is no danger of those black holes destroying Earth, added scientists of the new study published online March 5 in the journal Physical Review Letters. Black holes get their names from their gravitational fields, which are so fiendishly powerful that nothing can escape, not even light. A black hole is normally thought to form when the remains of a dead star collapses under its own gravity, scrunching all that mass together.
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