When Spacetime Crystallises, a Black Hole is Born

When Spacetime Crystallises, a Black Hole is Born
By Mark Thompson (https://ift.tt/lB2HntR)

Physicists have thought for decades that microscopic black holes can theoretically emerge not from exploding stars but from delicate "critical states" in which space and time organise themselves into a crystal like structure. Now, for the first time, researchers from TU Wien and Goethe University Frankfurt have derived an exact mathematical formula describing this bizarre phenomenon using a surprising trick involving infinitely many dimensions!

May 28, 2026 at 04:05AM
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