In a ground-breaking study, physicists claim that wormholes may have already been detected. Not only that, but we have also imaged them.
Wormholes are hypothetical objects in the universe that connect two distant regions of spacetime.
They may even connect two points in two different universes. Physicists have made significant progress in understanding the nature of these exotic structures in the past few decades.
Recently, a team of researchers used Google’s quantum computer to show that wormholes of general relativity and entanglement of quantum mechanics are essentially the same.
And now, a team of scientists has claimed that these hypothetical spacetime structures may have already been detected. In fact, the two supermassive black holes we have imaged so far could be wormholes in disguise.
But how is that even possible? If black holes are indeed wormholes in disguise, how can we differentiate between the two?
Finally, and most importantly, why is the understanding of wormholes essential to develop the theory of everything?