CERN’s official public FAQ answer, the most-read distillation of the LSAG verdict for a lay audience. States that general relativity makes it “impossible” for the LHC to produce black holes, but that some speculative theories (extra dimensions) predict microscopic ones could form — and asserts these would “disintegrate immediately” via Hawking-type decay, with “no time to start accreting matter and cause macroscopic effects.” No citations or dates given on the page itself; it is a summary restatement of LSAG’s conclusion, not new analysis. relevance_note: the public-facing endpoint of the safety case — worth comparing for oversimplification against the LSAG report’s actual hedges (e.g. “if” extra dimensions exist, “if” stable black holes could even form).