The LHC just ruled out another hiding place for quantum black holes

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What happened

Physicists searching through Large Hadron Collider data found no evidence that the machine has been producing microscopic quantum black holes, but the result sharply narrows where such exotic physics could still be hiding.

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  • Reported by ScienceDaily and published Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:32:54 UTC.

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