Good news for those who were worried CERN's Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator was going to create a planet swallowing Black Hole. They have a plan!
... black holes can carry a charge, depending on the particles they gobble up. So physicists could give the rogue hole a negative charge by firing electrons at it from a cathode ray tube. Then they could trap it within a box lined with negatively charged metal plates - the negatively-charged black hole would be repelled by the negatively-charged walls, leaving it suspended inside. Making sure the box otherwise contained a vacuum would stop the black hole from eating any particles and getting any bigger. Then you could just load the box onto a rocket, and shoot it out of the solar system.
Yes, the plan to stop the world-destroying black hole is to put it in a box that someone has rubbed against a balloon. I'm not a scientist so I'll trust these guys know what they're doing... but someone seriously should have thought about hiring a press relations director.
