Seven hidden dimensions could trap black holes in tiny remnants, reshaping Hawking’s paradox
A new theoretical study proposes that if the universe has seven space-time dimensions with three hidden compact dimensions (folded in a G2 geometry), a torsion field could halt Hawking evaporation at the end of a black hole’s life, leaving stable microscopic remnants that store information and may connect gravity to the Higgs mechanism—though testing this idea would require physics beyond current capabilities and must contend with the limits of semiclassical descriptions near the Planck scale.
