There are such things... white holes...
Added 2025-05-06 18:36:53 +0000 UTCBlack holes... white... no, I’m not talking about racism, I’m talking about physics.
The idea of white holes came as a continuation of the theory of black holes. When scientists started working through Einstein’s equations of gravity, they noticed something interesting. In the solution for black holes, there was something strange, not just "absorption" of matter, but the possibility of "spitting out" matter from some point in space.
Black holes were already well-known as objects that suck in everything that comes close to them, but what if there were objects that do the opposite: emit everything that comes near them? Like a hypothetical "exit" in spacetime, from which everything gets thrown back out. This was just weird. It’s like an object where spacetime "throws out" things but doesn’t let them return. So, a black hole could be connected to a white hole through something called a wormhole - a kind of tunnel between two regions of space.
But here’s the problem: as cool as the idea sounds, white holes are not observed in reality, and no one has seen matter fly out of nowhere. So, white holes remain more of a theory than actual objects. In other words, if black holes are like vacuum cleaners, then white holes are like fountains, but probably only in math and scientists’ dirty imaginations...
And are those white holes right here with us in the same room?
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Anytime I think about holes when it comes to space the first immediate thought is event horizon. Could it be possible to use black holes under pristine conditions to essentially warp space in such a way as to allow the bridging of two points in space. Granted its hyper sci-fi and probably not even remotely possible but still the idea of it alone is kinda cool but also scary as hell because of the basics that we know about black holes
Will Bowling
2025-05-26 18:31:13 +0000 UTCYou a stable here, I see😌
Ana
2025-05-08 10:08:54 +0000 UTCQuasars are not the "exit" from a black hole, but the result of its activity) kinda product
Ana
2025-05-08 10:08:27 +0000 UTCwhen i read about astrophysics when I was a kid, i'd like to imagine that quasars were the other end of a wormhole that started at a black hole in another part of the galaxy. should be trivial to prove, right?
Brian
2025-05-07 02:54:23 +0000 UTCJust because there is attraction doesn’t mean there must be distraction 🤓
Pendolino70
2025-05-06 20:38:09 +0000 UTC
