Have scientists found a white hole?

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  1. Fallen

    Fallen Well-Known Member

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    The idea of a wormhole has one problem. One side must have a black hole that sucks in matter. And the other side must have a hole expelling matter. This is called a white hole. For the longest time, this white hole has proven to be elusive. Have scientists finally discovered it?

    A mysterious object has been spotted that's 10 million times as bright as the sun. Scientists can't work out why it hasn't exploded.

    Scientists have been left baffled by a mysterious celestial object so bright that physics dictates it should have exploded.

    NASA has been tracking so-called ultraluminous X-ray sources, objects that can be 10 million times as bright as the sun, to understand how they work.

    These objects are impossible in theory because they break the Eddington limit, a rule of astrophysics that dictates an object can be only so bright before it breaks apart.

    A new study categorically confirms that M82 X-2, a ULX 12 million light-years away, is as bright as previous observation suggested. But the question remains: How can it exist?

    https://www.businessinsider.com/mys...ter-sun-nasa-object-ultraluminous-xray-2023-5


     
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    I've heard that some quasars are brighter than entire galaxies. This thing is even brighter?
     
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    Multiple groups of physicists are saying this object is a neutron star.

    Of course, that isn't the full answer ...
     

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