What happens to Matter swallowed by a Black Hole? Japanese physicists may finally have the answer

A team of physicists may have solved the mystery surrounding matter swallowed by a black hole. These physicists consider wormholes – theoretical tunnels with two ends at separate points in spacetime – to solve the long-standing mystery. Black holes are regions in space that no matter can pass through. The gravity of a black hole is so strong that it pulls everything inside itself and allows nothing to escape, not even light. A research team from Japan’s RIKEN research institute says that black holes mimic wormholes, meaning that a black hole has an exit tunnel to allow matter swallowed by them to be released back into space.

The model proposed by these scientists, including RIKEN Interdisciplinary Theory and Mathematical Sciences researcher Kanato Goto, appears similar to the concept seen in popular science fiction movies . However, if validated, it could solve a long-standing information paradox about black hole.

Based on By Albert Einstein General Relativity, nothing can escape a black hole. But Stephen Hawking predicted in the 1970s that black holes would emit radiation (Hawking radiation) as they shrink. This is called an “evaporating” black hole. If we consider Hawking’s concept, information about the matter that a black hole swallows will also evaporate with the black hole. But quantum physics says information cannot simply disappear from the Universe, leading to a paradox.

“This shows that general relativity and the quantum mechanics in which they exist are not compatible. We must find a unified framework for quantum gravity,” Goto said in a statement. declare.

Several attempts have been made to find out whether information can escape from a black hole, but a definite answer is still guaranteed. In theory, Goto and his colleagues have found an explanation for what happens to this information. “A wormhole connects the inside of the black hole and the radiation outside, like a bridge,” he said. But some questions remain unanswered. “We still don’t know the underlying mechanism of how information is carried by radiation,” Goto added.