What's kind of damage could this weapon do?

[newjerseyrunner]

I want to represent a species advanced enough that they can create small black holes at will. If I understand correctly, a micro black hole will evaporate quickly and at a very predictable rate. So a weapon can determine the range to an enemy ship and create a black hole to evaporate in exactly the time it'll take it to be fired that distance. I know it's very hot and sending off gamma rays, when it does finally evaporate, it does so with a burst, right? How powerful of a blast would it produce? Could it damage a ship?

 

[jedishrfu]

If you have the mass of the mini black hole and imagine it to turn completely into energy then E=mc^2 could give you the energy amount emitted.

From there, you'd have to compare it to the energy emitted in a nuclear explosion to get an estimate of its true explosive potential.

Here's an article with evaporation rates for black holes:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/11/12/what_would_the_death_of_a_black_hole_look_like.html