Scientists Think There May Be A Wormhole In The Centre Of Our Galaxy

If Zilong Li and Cosimo Bambi of the Fudan University in Shanghai are correct, what we thought was a massive black hole in the centre of our galaxy could be a wormhole that would allow instantaneous travel between two points in space and time. In fact, it may be the gateway to a different universe.

They even go beyond that — their paper says that every supermassive black hole candidate in other galaxies can actually be wormholes created in the early universe.

The supermassive black hole candidates at the center of every normal galaxy might be wormholes created in the early Universe and connecting either two different regions of our Universe or two different universes in a Multiverse model.

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Chuck a hamster in with a rope and see what happens

Why a hamster?

OK, I see what you mean now:

It was the first animal I thought of, probably inspired by The Magician’s Nephew in which the mad scientist threw hamsters into the magic holes to see what happened.

This wormhole business seems just a little bit contrived and convenient to me.

“Sorry, we can’t even approach the speed of light ……. but wait, physics has built us a back door shortcut to the rest of the universe.”

it is one thing to have a solution to relativistic theory but another thing entirely to either engineer of have such things exist in nature.

It’s good for peoples imaginations.

fun maths

fun physics

As the OP link points out, the idea that some (or all) alleged black holes are actually wormholes is not new. But what is new is a method of being able to tell the difference between a simple black hole and a wormhole.

From arxiv
Li and Bambi said:

In a few years, the VLTI instrument GRAVITY will have the capability to image blobs of plasma orbiting near the innermost stable circular orbit of SgrA∗, the supermassive black hole candidate in the Milky Way. The secondary image of a hot spot orbiting around a wormhole is substantially different from the one of a hot spot around a black hole, because the photon capture sphere of the wormhole is much smaller, and its detection could thus test if the center of our Galaxy harbors a wormhole rather then [sic] a black hole.

See arxiv for a link to the full PDF, which is only 9 pages (and half of the article is diagrams).

If you can get worm holes in apples, then why not in space?