Can an Atom Become a Black Hole?

[Blop]

If you shrunk an atom down to a certain point would it become a black hole like all matter in the universe can? How big would it be?

 

[phinds]

If you shrunk an atom down to a certain point would it become a black hole like all matter in the universe can? How big would it be?

Even if you could, which I doubt, it would evaporate in the instant of its creation so measuring it would be a bit tough.

 

[Comeback City]

If you shrunk an atom down to a certain point would it become a black hole like all matter in the universe can? How big would it be?

Just wondering... by what means do you plan on shrinking down an atom?

 

[XZ923]

I'm not sure what you mean by "shrinking an atom", but if you're interested in our ability to create black holes this would be a good read IMO:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/starts...ake-an-earth-killing-black-hole/#79b11f852ed5

As with many other concepts, we humans don't have the knowledge to make any kind of impact on a cosmic scale.

 

[Blank_Stare]

As with many other concepts, we humans don't have the knowledge to make any kind of impact on a cosmic scale.

Considering the mess we've made of things in our own back yard, this is probably a very good thing...

 

[mfb]

If we could accelerate protons to the Planck energy and collide them, we should be able to form artificial black holes (that evaporate quickly - but then we can study the decay products).
Unfortunately the energy we can reach in current accelerators is a factor 100000000000000 (10¹⁴) too low.