Into the Great Wide Open
Renowned physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen theorized the existence of “wormholes,” a hypothetical shortcut that connects two separate points in space-time.
Better known as the “Einstein-Rosen bridge,” it stipulates that a person – or spacecraft – could jump into one black hole and show up in a different part of the galaxy or universe, according to Futurism.
Scientists have debated their existence and questioned whether the speculative structures are stable enough to traverse them.
Now, a new study by researcher Pascal Koiran suggested that wormholes might be more stable than previously believed, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Previous research speculated that a type of theoretical exotic matter would be needed to keep a wormhole accessible, or else the structure would close because there would be no force to keep it open.
Researchers in the past have also used the Schwarzschild metric to analyze black holes, which says that the latter collapses once an object reaches the event horizon – the crossing point into the wormhole.
However, Koiran utilized the Eddington-Finkelstein metric to mathematically model an object’s travel into a black hole and through a wormhole rather than breaking down at the event horizon.
His findings suggest that wormholes not only are stable but could be used for interstellar travel.
Even so, scientists haven’t detected a real wormhole. And even if they did, it would be very risky to dive into a black hole.
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