Some supermassive black holes can be the entrances to WORMHOLES

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Some supermassive black holes could be entrances to WORMHOLES that can transport spacecraft to distant parts of the universe, astrophysicists suggest

  • Very active galaxies with active galactic nuclei are ‘candidates’ for wormholes
  • Scientists believe that these galactic nuclei connect distant points in time and space
  • They are ‘traversable wormholes’ instead of a supermassive black hole
  • Looking for evidence of extreme temperatures could prove their existence

By Ryan Morrison for Mailonline

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Some supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies may actually be wormholes connecting two distant parts of the universe, astrophysicists suggest.

In his general theory of relativity, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of wormholes, connecting two points in space or time, but they have yet to be discovered.

Now experts at the Central Astronomical Observatory in Russia believe that the ‘black holes’ in the center of some very bright galaxies (known as the active galactic nuclei or AGNs) may be the entrances to these wormholes.

While these wormholes are theoretically ‘traversable’, meaning spacecraft can travel through them, they are surrounded by intense radiation, meaning humans are unlikely to survive the journey, even in the most rugged spacecraft.

Some galaxies have 'active galactic nuclei' at their center - a supermassive black hole-like phenomenon with double jets of matter ejecting from the poles of the accretion discs

Some galaxies have ‘active galactic nuclei’ at their center – a supermassive black hole-like phenomenon with double jets of matter ejecting from the poles of the accretion discs

Wormholes and black holes are very similar in that they are both extremely dense and have extraordinarily strong attraction to bodies their size.

The difference is that nothing can come out of a black hole after it has passed its ‘event horizon’, while any body entering a wormhole’s mouth would theoretically emerge from its other ‘mouth’ elsewhere in the universe.

The researchers reasoned that matter entering one mouth of a wormhole could potentially collide with matter entering the other mouth of the wormhole at the same time.

This collision would result in plasma spheres expanding from both mouths of the wormhole at the speed of light and at temperatures of about 18 trillion degrees Fahrenheit.

With such heat, the plasma would also produce gamma rays with energies of 68 million electron volts some NASA observatories – such as the Fermi space telescope – to detect the explosion.

The closest AGN is in the constellation Centaurus A, which is about 13 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus (photo)

The closest AGN is in the constellation Centaurus A, which is about 13 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus (photo)

The new study, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, examined the type of energy and radiation produced by AGNs.

The closest AGN is in the galaxy Centaurus A, which is about 13 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus.

AGNs are usually surrounded by rings of plasma known as accretion disks and can emit powerful rays from their poles.

The energy flows produced by accretion disks are nowhere near as hot as the jets that would be ejected by wormhole collisions.

However, the researchers suggest that if they found what appeared to be an AGN emitting spherical high-energy gamma rays, it might not be AGN at all, but the entrance to a wormhole.

The Russian team believes these AGN are wormholes to another part of the universe and they can be detected by looking for extremely hot and intense bursts of energy caused by matter from both sides of the wormhole crashing into the throat.

The Russian team believes these AGN are wormholes to another part of the universe and they can be detected by looking for extremely hot and intense bursts of energy caused by matter from both sides of the wormhole crashing into the throat.

The researchers go on to suggest that these wormholes are likely to be “traversable,” meaning spacecraft could theoretically travel through them.

“It should be clear that we know very little about the internal structure of wormholes, and besides, we’re not even sure if they even exist at all,” study author Mikhail Piotrovich told Motherboard.

If humans ever traveled to these distant galactic cores, they would open a new avenue for potential space flights or even a way to travel in time, he said.

However, they are surrounded by intense radiation and the closest one is 13 million light years away, so it is unlikely that a human will be able to use one to travel the universe any time soon.

The findings are published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Society.

WHAT’S IN A BLACK HOLE?

Black holes are strange objects in the universe that take their name from the fact that nothing can escape their gravity, not even light.

If you venture too close and cross the so-called event horizon, the point where no light can escape, you will also be trapped or destroyed.

You would never survive that close to small black holes.

The tidal forces close to the event horizon are enough to stretch any matter into just a series of atoms, in a process that physicists call “spaghettification.”

But for large black holes, such as the supermassive objects in the cores of galaxies such as the Milky Way, which weigh tens of millions if not billions of times the mass of a star, crossing the event horizon would be no problem.

Since it should be possible to survive the transition from our world to the world of the black hole, physicists and mathematicians have long wondered what that world would look like.

They have turned to Einstein’s general theory of relativity to predict the world in a black hole.

These equations work well until an observer reaches the center or singularity, where, in theoretical calculations, the curvature of space-time becomes infinite.

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