  In this paper we present a suitably adjusted Higgs-like mechanism producing
black holes at, and beyond, the Planck energy. Planckian objects are difficult
to classify either as "particles", or as "black holes", since the Compton
wavelength and the Schwarzschild radius are comparable. Due to this unavoidable
ambiguity, we consider more appropriate a quantum field theoretical (QFT)
approach rather than General Relativity (GR), which is known to break down as
the Planck scale is approached. A posteriori, a connection between the two
description can be established for masses large enough with respect to the
Planck mass, though always describing black holes at the microscopic level. We
adopt a QFT inspired by the Higgs mechanism, in the sense that a massive scalar
field develops a non-trivial vacuum for m>\mu_{Pl}. Exictations around this
vacuum are Planckian objects we name "black particles" to remark the ambiguous
identity of these objects, as it has been mentioned above. A black particle
eventually turns into a "quantum black hole" when the Schwarzschild radius
becomes larger than its Compton wavelength. However, for m=\mu_{Pl} the scalar
field is massless at the tree-level, but develops a non-trivial vacuum at
one-loop through a Coleman-Weinberg mechanism. In this case, excitations
describe Planck mass black particles.
