{"id":136980,"date":"2022-03-17T09:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/hidden-passage-could-we-spy-a-traversable-wormhole-in-the-milky-ways-heart"},"modified":"2022-03-17T09:04:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:04:11","slug":"hidden-passage-could-we-spy-a-traversable-wormhole-in-the-milky-ways-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/hidden-passage-could-we-spy-a-traversable-wormhole-in-the-milky-ways-heart","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Passage: Could We Spy a Traversable Wormhole in the Milky Way\u2019s Heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-passage-could-we-spy-a-traversable-wormhole-in-the-milky-ways-heart.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stojkovic and Dai say that by monitoring the motions of stars on our side\u2014such as S2, a known star orbiting about 17 light-hours from Sagittarius A*\u2014we could look for tiny but perceptible accelerations caused by a wormhole\u2019s presence. If telescopic observations of S2\u2019s motion reach a precision of 0.000001 meter per second squared, the duo calculate such measurements could reveal the \u201cimprint\u201d of a star not much larger than our sun pulling on S2 from the wormhole\u2019s far side.<\/p>\n<p>If wormholes do exist, there is some question as to whether they link two points in our own universe or in two different parallel universes. For Dai and Stojkovic\u2019s purposes, however, the difference is academic, because either scenario should produce similar detectable effects. Of course, finding a small acceleration that corresponded to a star on the other side would not be proof of the wormhole\u2019s existence, perhaps instead hinting at unseen smaller black holes nearby, for example. But it might point in that direction. If no such acceleration were detected, given the expectation that a supermassive black hole orbited by stars would exist at a wormhole\u2019s other side, then the presence of such a passageway in Sagittarius A* could be seemingly ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University in China, who was not involved in the paper, notes that a failure to find any anomalous motions could carry implications just as large as those for a success. But he cautions that any excitement about such measurements would be somewhat premature. \u201cOf course, [this study] may be too optimistic,\u201d he says. \u201cBut in principle, it\u2019s possible. We cannot exclude [wormholes], right now, from current observations. Sometimes you discover something even if you don\u2019t discover anything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stojkovic and Dai say that by monitoring the motions of stars on our side\u2014such as S2, a known star orbiting about 17 light-hours from Sagittarius A*\u2014we could look for tiny but perceptible accelerations caused by a wormhole\u2019s presence. If telescopic observations of S2\u2019s motion reach a precision of 0.000001 meter per second squared, the duo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}