Supermassive Blackholes by the millions?

[Trip]

Somehow I thought they'd be rare-er than millions upon millions maybe even billions? By that guesstimate it would seem that almost every medium to large to super-massive galaxies have them. This article is a fascinating read so I thought I would share

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19421453

[Retired Egile Collins]

They in every galaxy including the milky way. And from what I understand there many more we can not see. Including ones smaller then a dime.


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[Gilion]

lets hope they dont add a new one to the list with the super collider....

[Trip]

I'm pretty sure that is next to impossible. Blackholes need infinite energy to sustain themselves. The particles used in the super collider is insanely small and last merely femtosecond or maybe a bit longer. Also, the particles are collided within a vacuum so even if a micro blackhole formed within there's no amount of material for it to "consume" for any length of time to grow. And before you say "it can eat the lining of the collider and grow up dude!!" consider that it takes an "infinite" amount of energy for it to sustain itself. Only the death of a giant star or surrounding matter in space can provide that kind of energy.

So don't worry. We have a higher chance of being obliterated by a rogue asteroid or comet or a nuclear detonation or world war than a micro blackhole through our experiments.