A New Tool for Black Hole Formation: Unraveling the Mysteries of Critical Collapse The discovery that a strange "spacetime crystal" state can suddenly transform into a microscopic black hole has sent ripples through the physics community.
Researchers from Goethe University Frankfurt and TU Wien have made a breakthrough by mathematically capturing this phenomenon, known as critical collapse.
Critical collapse was first suggested in 1993 by computer simulations that indicated black holes could form spontaneously through this behavior.