{"id":139507,"date":"2022-05-17T20:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T01:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/how-could-we-find-a-wormhole-hiding-in-the-milky-way"},"modified":"2022-05-17T20:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T01:04:26","slug":"how-could-we-find-a-wormhole-hiding-in-the-milky-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/how-could-we-find-a-wormhole-hiding-in-the-milky-way","title":{"rendered":"How could we find a wormhole hiding in the Milky Way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-could-we-find-a-wormhole-hiding-in-the-milky-way.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If there was a wormhole in the center of our galaxy, how could we tell? Two physicists propose that carefully watching the motions of a star orbiting the Milky Way\u2019s supermassive black hole might help scientists start to check. The researchers published the idea in a recent paper in the journal Physical Review D.<\/p>\n<p>A wormhole is a hypothetical concept that connects two separate areas of space-time. Wormholes often appear in science fiction narratives like the 2014 film <em>Interstellar<\/em> as a convenient way to get from point A to point B in the vast universe. Physicists have many theories that describe how wormholes might behave, if they exist, but haven\u2019t yet found any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was a wormhole in the center of our galaxy, how could we tell? Two physicists propose that carefully watching the motions of a star orbiting the Milky Way\u2019s supermassive black hole might help scientists start to check. The researchers published the idea in a recent paper in the journal Physical Review D. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139507","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}