Fractal Spacetime Could Trigger Tiny Black Holes, New Math Suggests
Physicists describe a spacetime “crystal” forming at the critical collapse threshold of black hole formation, where curvature repeats in a discrete self-similar pattern. A small energy perturbation can tip this crystal into a micro black hole. By formulating Einstein’s equations in many dimensions, researchers derived analytic descriptions of these fractal structures and found the same patterns persist even in lower dimensions, offering a new analytic framework for extreme-gravity phenomena. Published in Physical Review Letters.
