Wormhole

Why in news?

• James Webb Space Telescope's stunning 'Phantom Galaxy' picture looks like a wormhole
  • A fresh image based on brand-new deep-space data appears to show a wormhole spinning before our very eyes.

About Wormhole:

• A Wormhole can act as a bridge or a shortcut between two points in curved spacetime which are well separated in practical terms from the inhabitants of the universe.
• The existence of wormholes has been predicted by Ludwig Flamm, in 1916, soon after Einstein proposed his General Theory of Relativity.
• However, the presence of wormholes has not yet been established through observation or inference by astronomers.
• With rapid advances in observational cosmology in recent times, there is gathering support for the existence of entities such as the wormhole and others that have not yet been “seen”.

PRACTICE QUESTION:

The term ‘wormhole’, recently seen in news, is associated with

(a) Cosmology

(b) Quantum Computing

(c) Cyber-security

(d) Mining

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