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Our galaxy? It could be inside a black hole

According to an authoritative study based on 263 galaxies observed by the powerful James Webb Telescope, our planet and the whole galaxy could be part of a huge black hole

One of the most fascinating hypotheses of cosmology suggests that our universe is located within a black hole. The latter would then be part of another parent universe of ours. Known as “theory of the rotating universe”, this hypothesis is part of the so -called “non -standard cosmology”, a series of alternative cosmological models to the model generally accepted by physicists and consistent with the Big Bang theory (standard model). The idea is that perhaps our universe arose from a long process through which a very rarefied space has given rise to the formation of various black holes, each of which contains its Big Bang in the center. Many black holes, many universes then. But with a marked fate: these cosmic monsters would gradually evaporate by emitting radiation. And at the end there would be a terrible radiation impulse. When? It would be necessary to wait for a number of years that would write as 10 followed by 66 zeros.

Now the point is: how credible is it that our universe is contained in a black hole? So far it was a speculation of theoretical physicists, but today it becomes a hypothesis with solid foundations consisting of astronomical observations. What happened is that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) the largest space telescope, equipped with high resolution tools and designed to conduct infrared astronomy, has provided us with images of 263 old galaxies in the time of which the previous space telescope Hubble was unable to provide us with any information.

These images were at the center of a very recent analysis then published on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Signed by the astrophysicist Lior Shamir, a professor associated with the Department of Compute Science Computer Science of the Kansas State University. This analysis revealed that about two thirds of the galaxies observed show a clockwise rotation, while only about a third wheel counterclockwise. This significant asymmetry contradicts our intuition of a random and uniformly distributed scheme of the Galactic rotation directions. In short, he puts the idea in crisis that there is no privileged direction in the universe. The disparity is thus pronounced that we can conclude that there is a “pattern” in the galactic rotations, a sort of signal on what the nature of our universe may be. It is as if there was a direction of rotation, and this is compatible with the idea of ​​a rotating universe inside a black hole.

In other words, this unexpected rotational distortion challenges the cosmological principle, which postulates that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic (i.e. it has no privileged rotation directions) on a large scale. “This intrinsic rotation direction,” says Shamir, “implies that the universe could be born with a global rotation. This discovery requires a revaluation of existing cosmological models and could provide ideas on unresolved issues ». One of these is precisely that of the cosmology of the black hole: “This model proposes that our observable universe resides within a huge black hole in a larger parent universe” agoiunge Shamir “in this sense the rotation of the universe could be inherited from the angular moment of the black parent hole, influencing the rotational dynamics of the galaxies”. The observations of the James Webb Space Telescope studied by Shamir seem to confirm this conclusion.

However, these are observations that only corroborate the hypothesis of the universe inside a black hole, But it should not be forgotten that the standard model has enormous tests in its favor. Meanwhile, waiting for further investigations, what we have left is a new fascinating perspective on the origin and structure of the universe. With its implications, including the one that black holes act as bridges to other universes.