‘Our model proposes that the universe actually has seven dimensions: the four we know, plus three tiny extra dimensions curled up so tightly that we cannot directly perceive them.’
This means that spacetime can not only fold, but twist – creating a new physical effect known as torsion.
It turns out that this so–called ‘torsion field’ is key to understanding what happens to black holes when they appear to vanish.
According to the researchers’ theory, as a black hole evaporates away to the smallest scales possible, its seven dimensions essentially tangle into a knot.
When this knot becomes small enough, the folding of these hidden dimensions creates an outward force that prevents the black hole from collapsing entirely.
This leaves behind an astonishingly tiny remnant, some 10 billion times smaller than an electron.
However, this twisted knot of hidden dimensions still holds onto all the information that fell into the black hole like a tiny permanent memorial.
Instead of disappearing, black holes shrink so much that their hidden dimensions knot and twist into a shape that keeps them stable forever. This is called a ‘torsion–stabilized black hole remnant’