00:00Well, if you ever wondered what would happen if a microscopic black hole passed straight through your body, we finally
00:04have an answer.
00:05According to a new analysis out of Vanderbilt University, a tiny black hole clocking in at 100 billion tons would
00:10do less damage than a .22 caliber round.
00:12That's because something that small barely interacts with your body at all.
00:15It would actually pass straight through without tearing you apart.
00:18Let me tell you, the real danger would not be gravity, it would be the shockwave.
00:21As it moves, it creates a supersonic wake that could damage tissue very similar to a gunshot wound.
00:26Now, for gravity to seriously hurt you, the black hole would need way more mass, like closer to an asteroid
00:30that's packed into something smaller than an atom.
00:32And even that, the odds of that happening are basically zero about once every quintillion years.
00:36So in theory, yes, a microscopic black hole could hurt you, and that's if they exist at all.
00:40But in reality, this is just a thought experiment about extreme physics, not something that you'll ever need to worry
00:44about.
00:45What do you think?
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