Unexpected NASA discovery hints we could be living in a black hole
Puzzling observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope suggest the entire universe exists inside a black hole
A shocking new discovery by a NASA telescope has implied we may all be living in a black hole.
Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has left scientists scratching their heads. A new study, conducted by a team of researchers at Kansas State University in the US, has revealed that most galaxies in our universe are rotating in the same direction.
In an unexpected discovery, the team found that a whopping two-thirds of galaxies rotated clockwise. In theory, our universe should be "isotropic", meaning there should be an equal number of galaxies rotating clockwise and anticlockwise.
“It is still not clear what causes this to happen, but there are two primary possible explanations," said Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science at Kansas State.
"One explanation is that the universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, which postulates that the entire universe is the interior of a black hole," Shamir added.
The controversial black hole cosmology theory states that the entire universe might exist inside a black hole.
If true, it would mean that our entire understanding of the Big Bang, space, and time, could be completely wrong.
"But if the universe was indeed born rotating it means that the existing theories about the cosmos are incomplete,” said Shamir.
The study, which looked at 263 galaxies captured by the space telescope, also hints that this discovery could have serious implications for how we measure distance across the universe.
The Milky Way's own rotation might be affecting the brightness of galaxies, skewing the data and forcing scientists to reconsider what they know about the expansion of the cosmos.
“If that is indeed the case, we will need to re-calibrate our distance measurements for the deep universe,” Shamir said.
"The re-calibration of distance measurements can also explain several other unsolved questions in cosmology such as the differences in the expansion rates of the universe and the large galaxies that according to the existing distance measurements are expected to be older than the universe itself.”
The findings do not provide definitive answers about the black hole cosmology theory, and far more evidence is needed to understand the findings. However, the unexpected discovery opens up a whole new world of cosmic possibilities.
The study was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.