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3 days agoDark matter may have created a wormhole INSIDE the Milky Way
Wormholes could connect distant or time-separated points, and dark matter may keep them open long enough for traversal in the Milky Way.
His star student, Erica played by Priah Ferguson eagerly raises her hand. "They allow matter to travel between galaxies or dimensions without crossing the space between," she says from the front row. The story is set in Indiana in a fictional town called Hawkins that gets caught up with a paranormal world and its various villains. Much of Stranger Things is a love letter to the 80s; this scene is straight out of a John Hughes movie.
Back in 2019, the gravitational wave observatories LIGO and Virgo detected major ripples in spacetime. While astronomers generally agree that the event, dubbed GW190521, was the result of two black holes colliding, a team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has proposed a far more eyebrow-raising explanation. As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, first spotted by ScienceAlert, the researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different universe than ours.