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Deep inside of a black hole lies a region known as the

gravitational singularity, where space-time curves toward


infinity, and no matter passing through can survive or so
its been thought.
In a new study, researchers suggest there may instead be a
way out through a wormhole at the centre of the black hole,
which acts as a back door.
By this theory, anything traveling through the black hole
would be spaghettified, or stretched to the extreme, but
returned back to its normal size when it emerges in a
different region of the universe.

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In the new theory, anything traveling through the black hole would be
spaghettified, or stretched to the extreme, but returned back to its

normal size when it emerges in a different region of the universe. An


artist's impression of a wormhole is pictured

new scenario that considers the singularity as an


imperfection in the geometric structure of space-time. A
gravitational singularity or space-time singularity is a
location where the quantities that are used to measure the
gravitational field of a celestial body become infinite in a way
that does not depend on the coordinate system. These
quantities are the scalar invariant curvatures of space-time,
which includes a measure of the density of matter. The laws
of normal space-time could not exist within a singularity. [1][2]
For the purposes of proving the PenroseHawking singularity
theorems, a space-time with a singularity is defined to be one
that contains geodesics that cannot be extended in a smooth
manner.[3] The end of such a geodesic is considered to be the
singularity. This is a different definition, useful for proving
theorems.
The two most important types of space-time singularities are
curvature singularities and conical singularities.[4]
Singularities can also be divided according to whether or not
they are covered by an event horizon (naked singularities are
not covered).[5] According to modern general relativity, the
initial state of the universe, at the beginning of the Big Bang,
was a singularity.[6] Both general relativity and quantum
mechanics break down in describing the earliest moments of
the Big Bang,[7] but in general, quantum mechanics does not
permit particles to inhabit a space smaller than their
wavelengths.[8] Another type of singularity predicted by
general relativity is inside a black hole: any star collapsing
beyond a certain point (the Schwarzschild radius) would form
a black hole, inside which a singularity (covered by an event
horizon) would be formed, as all the matter would flow into a
certain point (or a circular line, if the black hole is rotating). [9]
This is again according to general relativity without quantum
mechanics, which forbids wavelike particles entering a space

smaller than their wavelength. These hypothetical


singularities are also known as curvature singularities.

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