Interstellar-style wormhole exists in Milky Way?

WASHINGTON: An Interstellar-style space-time tunnel may exist in the Milky Way and we could even travel through it, according to a new theory proposed by an international team of scientists, including those from India.

Based on the latest evidence and theories our galaxy could be a huge wormhole and, if that were true, it could be "stable and navigable," scientists say .

"If we combine the map of the dark matter in the Milky Way with the most recent Big Bang model to explain the universe and we hypothesize the existence of space-time tunnels, what we get is that our galaxy could really contain one of these tunnels, and that the tunnel could even be the size of the galaxy itself.But there's more," said Paolo Salucci, astrophysicist of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, Italy, and a dark matter expert. "We could even travel through this tunnel, since, based on our calcula tions, it could be navigable," Salucci said.

The research was published in a paper in the Annals of Physics, which Salucci authored with Farook Rahaman from Jadavpur University in Kolkata and a group of Indian and North American researchers."Obviously we are not claiming that our galaxy is definitely a wormhole, but simply that, according to theoretical models, this hypothesis is a possibility," said Salucci.

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