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Lab fireball 'may be black hole'
BBC
| March 18 2005
A fireball created in a US particle accelerator has the
characteristics of a black hole, a physicist has said.
It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
(RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near
light speeds.
Horatiu Nastase says his calculations show that the core
of the fireball has a striking similarity to a black hole.
His work has been published on the pre-print website arxiv.org
and is reported in New Scientist magazine.
When the gold nuclei smash into each other they are broken
down into particles called quarks and gluons.
These form a ball of plasma about 300 times hotter than
the surface of the Sun. This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion,
billionths of a second, can be detected because it absorbs jets of particles
produced by the beam collisions.
But Nastase, of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island,
says there is something unusual about it.
Ten times as many jets were being absorbed by the fireball
as were predicted by calculations.
The Brown researcher thinks the particles are disappearing
into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation, just as matter
is thought to fall into a black hole and come out as "Hawking"
radiation.
However, even if the ball of plasma is a black hole,
it is not thought to pose a threat. At these energies and distances, gravity
is not the dominant force in a black hole.
