{"id":207613,"date":"2025-11-30T06:33:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/207613\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T06:33:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T06:33:10","slug":"what-happens-if-a-black-hole-passes-through-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/207613\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens if a black hole passes through your body?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:NewsNation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">NewsNation<\/a>) \u2014 If you\u2019re a space enthusiast, have you ever wondered what it would be like if a black hole shot through a person? Well, ask and you shall receive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A black hole, clocking in at 100 billion tons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-if-a-tiny-black-hole-shot-through-your-body-a-physicist-did-the-math\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:would do less damage;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">would do less damage<\/a> than a 0.22-calibre round, according to Robert Scherrer, a physicist at Vanderbilt University.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cRecent observations of gravitational radiation from black hole mergers, as well as new images of black holes, have revived interest in the subject of black holes in general,\u201d Scherrer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/what-would-happen-if-a-tiny-primordial-black-hole-passed-through-your-body-81661\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Scherrer added a primordial black hole would generate a supersonic shock wave along its path, which would destroy tissue along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/space\/soyuz-launch-damages-russian-platform-iss\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Soyuz launch damages only Russian platform used for ISS flights;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Soyuz launch damages only Russian platform used for ISS flights <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAs the PBH passes through the human body, it will exert strong tidal forces in its vicinity,\u201d he said. \u201cThese will produce a tensile force on nearby human cells, and a sufficiently strong force would tear the cells apart. The cells most sensitive to this dissociation are likely to be those in the human brain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Now, what happens if a sufficiently large primordial black hole goes through the body? \u201cIt would cause serious injury or death if it passed through you. It would behave like a gunshot,\u201d said Scherrer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tiny black holes represent a possible explanation for the strange dark matter that makes up excess gravity observed in the universe. Primordial black holes can be formed from extreme overdensities from the first moments after the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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