# Physicists find a narrow path that might let a black hole break into two

When two black holes collide, they merge into a single, larger one, and this happens regularly across the universe. A new theoretical paper looks at the opposite process, a single black hole dividing into two smaller ones, and concludes that physics may not completely forbid it.The conditions would

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| Published | 5 November 2026 |

Source: https://egamers.io/physicists-find-a-narrow-path-that-might-let-a-black-hole-break-into-two/