Researchers Propose 9×10^-41 kg Black Hole Remnants Preserve Information
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Updated · ScienceDaily · Jul 6
Researchers Propose 9×10^-41 kg Black Hole Remnants Preserve Information
2 articles · Updated · ScienceDaily · Jul 6
Summary
A new theoretical study says black holes may stop evaporating at the final stage, leaving stable remnants tiny enough to avoid complete information loss.
The model uses 7-dimensional Einstein-Cartan gravity, where spacetime torsion creates a repulsive effect at Planck-scale densities that halts Hawking evaporation.
For a solar-mass black hole, the authors calculate a remnant could retain about 1.515×10^77 qubits, encoding information in long-lived quasi-normal modes of the torsion field.
The same geometry also yields the electroweak scale near 246 GeV, which the researchers say could link the mechanism to the Higgs field and particle masses.
Direct collider tests are out of reach because related excitations sit around 8.6×10^15 GeV, but the team says dark-matter searches, cosmic microwave background signals and primordial gravitational waves could probe the idea.
Could the universe's dark matter be tiny, information-filled remnants left over from evaporated black holes?
Does the mass of every particle truly originate from the geometry of unseen, higher dimensions?
Black Hole Information Paradox Resolved? The Case for Stable Remnants and Hidden Dimensions in Modern Physics
Overview
In April 2026, Richard Pinčák and his team proposed a breakthrough idea: black holes may not fully evaporate but instead leave behind tiny, stable remnants. This challenges the traditional view that black holes disappear completely and addresses the black hole information paradox—a major conflict between Stephen Hawking’s theory of black hole evaporation and the laws of quantum mechanics. By suggesting that information is preserved in these remnants, the theory offers a new way to reconcile gravity with quantum mechanics, opening up exciting possibilities for understanding how the universe stores information.