Lab Created Black Hole?

Blarrrg writes "Humans may have created the first ever black hole in a lab. From the article: '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.'"

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[secondsun]

How about instead of the beeb we get some papers?

http://arxiv.org/find/grp_q-bio,grp_cs,grp_physics ,grp_math,grp_nlin/1/all:+AND+Nastase [arxiv.org]"+"Horatiu/0/ 1/0/all/0/1

Direct link didn't work in the preview so you guys have to copy and paste.

Not all are directly related to the article, but a few are.

duration?

[Uncle Kadigan]

This fireball, which lasts just 10 million, billion, billionths of a second,

So, it lasts 10, 000,000, 000,000,000 / 1,000,000,000 = 10, 000,000 or 10 million seconds, or (lessee, carry the one...) almost 116 days?

You know, scientific notation [wikipedia.org] was created for a reason.

Re:Here

[Randolpho]

You could have just used this link [arxiv.org] instead....

Re:Look at the date

[Randolpho]

No, I think (s)he is saying that it's old news. As in nearly a year old.