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Minuscule black holes that can hollow out entire planets could be tunneling through objects on Earth, according to a wild new theoretical study. These hypothetical space-time missiles may be leaving microscopic traces of their passage in everyday objects and even our own bodies, the new research suggests.
"The chances of finding these signatures are small, but searching for them would not require much resources and the potential payoff, the first evidence of a primordial black hole, would be immense," co-author, Dejan Stojkovic, a professor of physics at the University at Buffalo, said in a statement."We have to think outside of the box because what has been done to find primordial black holes previously hasn't worked.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.To help in the hunt for these extreme entities, the physicists behind the new study performed a number of calculations to constrain what astronomers should be looking for when they search for the objects. One idea they propose is to look for planets and asteroids that captured the mini black holes and became hollowed-out by them.
"If a projectile is moving through a medium faster than the speed of sound, the medium's molecular structure doesn't have time to respond," Stojkovic says."Throw a rock through a window, it's likely going to shatter. Shoot a window with a gun, it's likely to just leave a hole."
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