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Listener Questions about rogue planets and black holes!

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Effects of Quantum Gravity on Hamsters

If you did make an electron black hole or if electrons are black holes they would have almost no effect on your nearby hamster or llama because again their gravity would be so tiny right not all black holes instantaneously grow to become super big black holes in fact we think that really small black holes radiate away their mass really rapidly and don't last for very long. We just don't know we do not have a theory of quantum gravity and it prevents us from asking really interesting and important questions that affect the lives of hamsters and llamas all over the world well maybe to answer daniel's curiosity here what would be the size of a black hole that could suck in a hamster or

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