In general, magnetism and superconductivity are antagonistic to each other. However, there are several families of superconductors, in which superconductivity may coexist with magnetism, and only a few examples are known, when superconductivity itself induces spontaneous magnetism. The most known compounds are SrRuO and some noncentrosymmetric superconductors. Here, we report the finding of a narrow dome of a novel superconducting (SC) phase with broken time-reversal symmetry (BTRS) inside the broad -wave SC region of the centrosymmetric multiband superconductor BaK$_{\rm x}_2_20.7 \lesssim x \lesssim 0.85$). We observe spontaneous magnetic fields inside this dome using the muon spin relaxation (SR) technique. Furthermore, our detailed specific heat study reveals that the BTRS dome appears very close to a change in the topology of the Fermi surface (Lifshitz transition). With this, we experimentally demonstrate the emergence of a novel quantum state due to topological changes of the electronic system.

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