The mystery of black holes is truly baffling to every scientist alive. A black hole is a phenomenon in space that takes in whatever comes in front of it with a huge amount of gravitational pull that not even light can escape. Scientific evidence from physicists and some of the most brilliant brains on this planet led to the theoretical idea that if we could advance our technology, we could potentially travel through time within black holes.
Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of our time, believes that if we could get into the right place outside of a black hole into its orbit, then we could presumably time travel into the future without even being inside. He states, “The trick would be to aim just off of the side so they’d just miss it, they would have to be on just the right trajectory and speed or they would never escape, get it right and the ship will be pulled into orbit.” Stephen Hawking continues to say that once in orbit you are now traveling in a slower time than the people on earth are experiencing. For example, say the ship with the people has been on it for five years. On earth, it would have been ten years. So if someone is on the ship for twenty years, the people on earth have aged forty years and now the people on the ship could theoretically get out of orbit to see a whole new world upon them.
While Hawking suggests that we could travel through time within a black hole, this new theory furthermore suggests that this theory could be a reality. Physicists have now suggested a whole new theory called white holes. A white hole is the total opposite of a black hole where light can escape. With this, hypothetically someone could escape too. Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains it like this, there are times when you have a math problem, and there could be two different answers that are opposite (like 3 and negative 3) yet both of them are right. Tyson explains how when solving the equation for black holes there is also another equation, one of them being the opposite of the black hole equation.
The white hole theory could also be backed up with Einstein’s general theory of relativity, if a black hole rotates, then the rotation becomes shaped like a ring, which could make it slightly possible that you could travel through a swirling black hole and at the same time not being crushed. The general relativity equation also suggests that “someone falling through a black hole could come across a tunnel in space-time called a wormhole and emerge from a white hole that spits its contents into a different region of space or period.”. Although this seems crazy, there is a chance that this could be a very real thing.
I believe that working on answering more of the “what if” questions we have about black holes, could be an important breakthrough to further our exploration of space. With that being said, I think that we need to work on advancing our technologies in space so we can fully comprehend the world that we are living in and dive into more research on black holes and what they really could do.
Works Cited
Martin, Sean. “Forget Black Holes, WHITE HOLES Are Weirder and 'SPEWING Matter from Another Universe'.”
“Are White Holes Real?” PBS, Public Broadcasting Service
“STEPHEN HAWKING: How to Build a Time Machine.” Daily Mail Online, Associated Newspapers, 5 Nov. 2011,
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