Nature 245, 88 - 89 (14 September 1973); doi:10.1038/245088a0

Was the Tungus Event due to a Black Hole?

A. A. JACKSON IV^† & MICHAEL P. RYAN JUN.^*†

^†Center for Relativity Theory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
^* Present address: Department of Astrophysics, Oxford.

THERE have been many attempts to explain the Tunguska meteorite, ranging from the prosaic to the bizarre¹⁻³. We suggest that a black hole of substellar mass such as those that have been postulated by Hawking⁴ could explain many of the mysteries associated with the event.

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