Black Holes… Not What We Thought

Black holes by very definition and by their very conception by Einstein are defined heavily by their infinitely dense, no volume, singularities that lies in their centers that creates many mass-based gravitational effects on anything around them and anything that dare cross their paths. Such a prominent effect even has a large section of description in the book about what precisely an indestructible astronaut would feel like being put through it and the insane effects this produces on all matter around the singularity.

However, a combination of scientists from University of the Republic in Uruguay and LSU have found that applying the effects of loop quantum gravity, a form of gravity we as students know little to nothing about, but many in the field know extensively about, can result in a conception of a black hole that does not result in these chilling, stretching, annihilating effects, but rather result in a black hole that would lead through to another location in the universe, another location in space (very much wormhole-like). Why is it that we question this construction now? As many of the scientists working to resolve this problem have noted, black holes have always been shrouded in mystery, and a particularly telling component results in the singularity occurring and the immediate breakdown of physics, as we just assume that whatever passes through the black hole is utterly annihilated, spaghettified, and equations stop mattering, in a sense.

This relates heavily back to cosmology as the Big Bang is thought to have started with a singularity, and helps identify its loop quantum gravity’s own methodology to define how these functions work. Gravity would still be strong and strengthen as you approached the center of the black hole, but would eventually lead to a spacetime jump, the stuff of science fiction and legend. The more we learn about physics, the more everyone hopes a little to find a little bit of the future in the knowledge.

 

Sources:

http://scitechdaily.com/study-takes-singularity-out-of-black-holes/