[Gorjus]

What if a group of scientists working in particle acceleration lab created a BLACK HOLE that was above some level of stabilty (ie. large enough that it didn't immediately dissolve because of Hawking Radiation)?

Sorry, but your premise is flawed. The lifetime of a black hole depends on the mass-to-surface area ratio. Since the mass itself determines the surface area, that means the lifetime of a black hole depends on its mass, and exponentially. Unless you can get something of about planetary mass compressed to the applicable radius - a challenge for any laboratory environment - the decay will be essentially 'immediate.' Even planetary mass black holes decay in fractions of a second. All the cool 'black holes passing through the earth' ideas were pre-Hawking.

[DoctorMichael]

What if a group of scientists working in particle acceleration lab created a BLACK HOLE that was above some level of stabilty (ie. large enough that it didn't immediately dissolve because of Hawking Radiation)?

Sorry, but your premise is flawed. The lifetime.....

The funding agency nonetheless stopped all research to give their overseers a chance to double-check all the calculations before allowing the researcher to continue with the experiment. Their thought process was as I described ie. What if........?

Better to be safe than sorry.