TINY black holes may be detonating like time bombs all over our cosmic
backyard. The explosions could explain a class of unusual energy bursts that
have been picked up here on Earth, say physicists in the US.
Gamma-ray bursts are spectacular releases of energy that for a few seconds
can outshine everything else in the Universe. They can come from any part of the
sky, and from this astronomers have concluded that they are produced at the very
edge of the Universe, most likely in the super-bright fireballs created by the
birth or merger of star-sized black holes.
But David…
