Portuguese 
English 
Spanish 
3 min of reading 
0 comments 
New Research Based on Observations from the James Webb Telescope Raises the Hypothesis That the Universe May Be Contained Within a Black Hole, Challenging Traditional Concepts of Cosmology
More than a century ago, Karl Schwarzschild developed equations that mathematically described black holes. His work paved the way for black hole cosmology, known as Schwarzschild cosmology.
Decades later, in the 1970s, scientists Raj Kumar Pathria and IJ Good advanced this idea. They suggested that the Schwarzschild radius, now known as the event horizon, could be the boundary of our universe.
In other words, they proposed that we live in a black hole embedded in a larger universe. Now, a new study, based on data from the James Webb Telescope, suggests that this theory may be correct.
-
A single machine aims to replace the laundry room, steam closet, and robot vacuum cleaner: Dreame unveils a 6-in-1 tower with four washer-dryers, a clothing closet, and a cleaning robot hidden in the base.
-
Chile approves US$5 billion megaproject to draw almost 1.7 million tons of water from the Pacific every day, desalinate the sea and push the resource 480 km to cities and mining companies in the world’s driest desert.
-
The floor of an old church in Maastricht collapsed during restoration work and workers found a skeleton with a musket ball in its chest and a French coin from 1660 in the place where D’Artagnan died in 1673.
-
The chip has gained a brain: China Mobile will present the world’s first AI e-SIM, featuring cloud AI, its own digital identity, and a promise to bring autonomous decisions to wearables, toys, robots, and drones by 2027.
A Favored Direction
Scientists generally assume that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic. Homogeneity means that its properties are uniform at any point, while isotropy indicates that it looks the same in all directions.
However, a study analyzing 263 galaxies observed by the JADES (James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey) project found something unexpected.
If the universe were isotropic, galaxies should rotate in a balanced manner: half clockwise and half counterclockwise.
But researchers found that the rotation of galaxies is not balanced. Approximately one-third of them spun counterclockwise, while more than two-thirds exhibited clockwise rotation.
“The analysis of the galaxies was conducted through quantitative analysis of their shapes, but the difference is so obvious that anyone looking at the image can see it. There’s no need for special skills or knowledge to see that the numbers are different. With the power of the James Webb Space Telescope, anyone can see it“, said Lior Shamir, the study’s author and a professor at Kansas State University.
This asymmetry suggests that the universe may have a preferred direction of rotation. But what could explain this?
Two Possibilities
According to researchers, the discrepancy in the rotation of galaxies may indicate that the universe was born rotating. This idea aligns with black hole cosmology, which suggests that the entire universe might be inside a larger black hole.
“One explanation is that the universe was born rotating. This explanation agrees with theories like black hole cosmology, which posits that the entire universe is the interior of a black hole. But if the universe did indeed begin rotating, it means that existing theories about the cosmos are incomplete“, stated Shamir.
Another possibility involves the Doppler effect. This phenomenon occurs when the light or sound from an object changes frequency due to its movement relative to the observer. In an astronomical context, Earth rotates around the center of the Milky Way, moving in a specific direction.
If a galaxy rotates in the opposite direction to Earth’s movement, the light it emits may appear brighter and therefore be more easily detected by telescopes. This effect could be influencing the observed ratio of galaxies that rotate in a specific direction.
If this explanation is correct, distance measurements in the deep universe would need to be recalibrated. This could impact other cosmic issues, such as the different expansion rates of the universe and the age of certain galaxies.
“If this is indeed the case, we will need to recalibrate our distance measurements for the deep universe. Recalibrating distance measurements could also explain several other unresolved issues in cosmology, such as the differences in the rates of expansion of the universe and large galaxies that, according to existing distance measurements, are expected to be older than the universe itself“, concluded Shamir.
With information from Interesting Engineering.
-
-
2 people reacted to this.