{"id":234601,"date":"2026-04-04T02:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/the-secrets-of-black-holes-and-the-higgs-mass-could-be-hidden-in-a-7-dimensional-geometry"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T07:50:59","slug":"the-secrets-of-black-holes-and-the-higgs-mass-could-be-hidden-in-a-7-dimensional-geometry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/the-secrets-of-black-holes-and-the-higgs-mass-could-be-hidden-in-a-7-dimensional-geometry","title":{"rendered":"The secrets of black holes and the Higgs mass could be hidden in a 7-dimensional geometry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-secrets-of-black-holes-and-the-higgs-mass-could-be-hidden-in-a-7-dimensional-geometry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, the \u201cblack hole information paradox,\u201d might have finally found an elegant solution, and the answer could also reveal the origins of the mass of fundamental particles.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking demonstrated, through semi-classical calculations, that black holes are not truly black, but emit a weak radiation that causes them to gradually shrink until they disappear.<\/p>\n<p>This process, however, brings with it a massive problem: it seems to cause an irreversible loss of information, violating the unitarity principle of quantum mechanics. In other words, the laws of quantum physics state that information cannot be destroyed, but the evaporation of a black hole suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the greatest mysteries of modern physics, the \u201cblack hole information paradox,\u201d might have finally found an elegant solution, and the answer could also reveal the origins of the mass of fundamental particles. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking demonstrated, through semi-classical calculations, that black holes are not truly black, but emit a weak radiation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}