  We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study the behavior of strongly-coupled
quarks in a black hole background. The supergravity background consists of a
six-dimensional Schwarzschild-black string AdS soliton, for which the bulk
horizon extends from the AdS boundary down to an infra-red floor. By going to
higher energy scales, the regime of validity of the classical supergravity
background can be extended closer to the singularity than might be expected
from the four-dimensional perspective. Small black holes potentially created by
the Large Hadron Collider could typically carry color charges inherited from
their parton progenitors. The dynamics of quarks near such a black hole depends
on the curved spacetime geometry as well as the strong interaction with the
color-charged black hole. We study the resulting behavior of quarks and compute
the rate at which a quark rotating around the black hole loses energy. We also
investigate how the interaction between a quark and an antiquark is altered by
the presence of the black hole, which results in a screening length.
