{"id":224681,"date":"2025-11-07T01:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-long-bumpy-caterpillar-like-wormhole-may-connect-two-black-holes"},"modified":"2025-11-07T01:21:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T07:21:49","slug":"a-long-bumpy-caterpillar-like-wormhole-may-connect-two-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/a-long-bumpy-caterpillar-like-wormhole-may-connect-two-black-holes","title":{"rendered":"A long, bumpy caterpillar-like wormhole may connect two black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-long-bumpy-caterpillar-like-wormhole-may-connect-two-black-holes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole looks like. But thanks to theoretical physics, we can ask what the inside should look like if Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity and the rules of quantum mechanics are both true. A new study <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/btw6-44ry\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> has done exactly this by concentrating on two black holes that are deeply entangled (linked together by quantum rules).<\/p>\n<p>The research by scientists from the U.S. and Argentina theoretically mapped the shared inner space between the two objects\u2014the wormhole connecting them. They found that for a typical, messy entangled pair, the interior isn\u2019t the smooth tunnel of science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it\u2019s a long, lumpy structure they called the \u201cEinstein-Rosen caterpillar.\u201d It\u2019s named after the Einstein-Rosen Bridge, the mathematical structure that connects two regions of spacetime, and \u201ccaterpillar\u201d because of its bumpy, segmented shape. This discovery is a significant step toward proving that the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics can control the shape of spacetime inside a black hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole looks like. But thanks to theoretical physics, we can ask what the inside should look like if Einstein\u2019s theory of gravity and the rules of quantum mechanics are both true. A new study published in the journal Physical Review Letters has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,2229,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224681","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}