Physicists at UC Santa Barbara have extended the search for evidence of microscopic black holes produced at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. These quantum black holes, if they exist, would be tiny and fleeting, appearing and decaying almost instantly in the aftermath of high-energy particle collisions.
The new effort broadens the scope of previous searches, looking for signs that such objects might have been created in LHC data. The formation of these black holes is considered one possible outcome of collisions at the collider's energy scales, and extending the search increases the chance of spotting a signal or tightening the limits on theoretical models.
Because the source reports only on the extension of the search, the specific analysis techniques and the exact range of new data are not detailed here. The work represents a continued effort to probe physics beyond the Standard Model using the LHC.