ByWILIAM HUNTER, SENIOR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
Published:05:12 EDT, 17 April 2026|Updated:08:31 EDT, 17 April 2026
It might sound like something from The Matrix, but scientists now say that our universe has seven dimensions.
In addition to the four dimensions we normally experience – height, length, depth, and time – physicists argue that there are three extra 'folded' layers of reality.
Far from being science fiction, researchers believe it could solve one of the most stubborn problems in the history of physics.
According to the researchers, this wild theory finally explains what happens to black holes when they die.
Scientists used to think that black holes were cosmic voids from which nothing could ever escape.
But in the 1970s,Stephen Hawkingrealised that black holes emit radiation, slowly evaporating away as time goes by.
The problem is that this appears to violate one of quantum physics' most important rules, creating something called the information paradox.
A group of researchers now say they have found a solution to this 50–year–old conundrum – but it only works if the universe really has seven dimensions.
Source: Drudge Report
