Ring Around the Singularity


Ring Around the Singularity -- JR Minkel  -- Physical Review  -- March 11, 2002
Supercolliders

Physicists propose that five dimensions of space-time can harbor a rotating, donut-shaped "black ring"--the first example of a nonspherical black hole. If we live in a world with extra, hidden dimensions--as many theorists speculate--these rings might even be created in Geneva, at the world's largest particle accelerator, now under construction.

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