Submitted by Durable_me t3_10bwcjy in askscience
DoobiousMaximus420 t1_j4ee5mr wrote
Reply to comment by mfb- in What is the smallest possible black hole? by Durable_me
At this scale though the black hole would rapidly evaporate due to hawking radiation. So I don't think a black hole of only a few quarks could be considered stable enough to count. It would cease to exist quicker than it could be measured.
mfb- t1_j4ga6b7 wrote
We would measure the decay products, that's good enough. That's the most common approach anyway. We don't see e.g. Higgs bosons flying through our detector either, we only measure the decay products.
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