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What Is a White Hole? (Opposite of Black Hole)

A celebrated astrophysicist is intently studying the skies in search of his elusive quarry,

combing through the thousands of images coming to him from the state-of-the-art International

Event Horizon telescope. Finally, after months and months of searching, he thinks he may have

found what he's been looking for all this time - in the images he sees the telltale signs of a

mysterious phenomenon called a black hole. But as he scrutinizes the images captured by the

powerful telescope, something doesn't seem quite right. There, right in front of his very eyes,

the black hole appears to be … burping!? The scientist knows that this should be impossible:

nothing can escape from a black hole, not even light - that's why they're so hard to find - but

here is photographic evidence of matter coming out of a black hole! Could it be that this is

not a black hole at all, but the black hole's neglected twin - a white hole? Could this be his

chance to once and for all answer the questions that have been nagging at him throughout his whole

career - What is a white hole? How do they form? How do they work!? And, do they even exist at all?

In 1915, Einstein's field equations turned the world of physics on its head. His theory

of relativity described the force of gravity and shattered the prevailing paradigm of the

nature of reality - rather than being rigid, space and time can actually bend and fold,

along with the mass of stars and planets. Within a year, scientists had calculated how

space-time curves around a single ball of mass - the seeds of what today is called the singularity.

Physicists were able to describe how a spherical mass shrunken down to infinitely dense point

could wrap space around it so tightly that a region of space is effectively

pinched off from rest of universe, creating a no-mans land beyond the event horizon where

the laws of physics no longer apply and the link between cause and effect is shattered.

A black hole is an incredibly dense area of space where all matter has

been squeezed into an impossibly tiny space, called the singularity. This creates such an

intense gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape from the black hole's clutches.

A tiny black hole might be the size of a single atom, but have a mass equal to a large mountain.

Stellar black holes, formed when a dying star collapses in on itself in a supernova,

can have a mass up to 20 times greater than our sun. The largest black holes are called

supermassive black holes, and they can be found at the center of every galaxy in our universe. The

supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, named Sagittarius A*, has as much mass

as 4 million of our suns, all condensed into a tiny ball only as big as a few million Earths.

A black hole's event horizon is what we would consider the surface of the black hole, although

it's not a surface in the true sense of the word - it's not a membrane or barrier, but rather, the

threshold beyond which there is no going back. The event horizon is the point of no return - nothing

that crosses the event horizon can ever come back. Even light cannot escape the black hole once it's

passed the event horizon. Once something - or someone - has crossed the event horizon,

they will begin the inevitable process of falling towards the black hole's singularity,

eventually dissolving into the singularity itself. We can only guess what happens after that.

Physicists have been studying black holes for decades and are only just

beginning to understand them. Only recently have

they turned their attention to the black hole's neglected twin - the white hole.

From afar, a white hole would appear identical to its better-known cousin,

a black hole. Like a black hole, a white hole might be big or small,

might spin or remain stationary, and might be electrically charged. A white hole would also

be surrounded by a ring of dust, and a cloud of gas and debris would gather at its event horizon.

The key difference between a black hole and a white hole is that white holes burp.

Yes, burp. Unlike a black hole, from which nothing can escape,

matter actually can cross the event horizon and come out of a white hole. It's only in these

moments, when objects emerge from the white hole, that scientists can definitively say

that what they are looking at is a white hole, and not a black hole.

If a black hole's event horizon is the point of no return, then the event horizon of a white hole

could be described as the point of no admission - nothing can ever cross the event horizon of

a white hole and reach the interior. In a black hole, objects in the space outside can cross the

event horizon and affect the interior of the black hole, but matter inside the black hole can never

again interact with space outside. In a white hole, the reverse holds true - objects from inside

the white hole can cross the event horizon and interact with objects in the space outside of it,

but nothing on the outside can ever enter the white hole or affect the inside.

This is because a white hole is a black hole's time reversal, according to physicists.

A black hole's singularity exists in the future, whereas a white hole's singularity exists in the

past. Since the interior of the white hole is cut off from the universe's past via its event

horizon, no outside object or event will ever affect the inside of a white hole. James Bardeen,

a black hole pioneer and professor emeritus at the University of Washington

explains the magnitude of this difference: “Somehow it's more disturbing to have a

singularity in the past than can affect everything in the outside world”, he says.

Scientists had theorized about the existence of black holes for hundreds of years before

Einstein's theory of relativity paved the way for physicists to prove their

existence - theoretically, at least. Since no light escapes from a black hole, they are

invisible to the naked eye. Until very recently, the only way scientists have been able to find

evidence of black holes has been to look for signs of their impact on the surrounding universe.

Stars, gasses and other space objects behave differently near a black hole than they do

elsewhere in the universe as the black hole's intense gravity pulls on them. Using telescopes

equipped with special tools, scientists can pick up a type of high-energy light emitted

by objects that interact with a black hole's gravitational forces, and reverberation mapping

can measure the radiation given off by the ring of debris that surrounds the black hole, helping

physicists pinpoint the location of a black hole, even if they can't see the black hole itself.

Finally, in 2019, scientists made a stunning breakthrough in the study of black holes

when the International Event Horizon telescope captured the world's first image of a black hole.

Technically, what they captured was the black hole's shadow, since the absence of

light reflecting from a black hole makes the black hole itself impossible to see, but nevertheless,

this was the world's first solid, photographic proof of the existence of black holes.

If black holes have finally been proven to be real, does that mean that white holes are a proven

fact of the universe, too? Well, not exactly. While Einstein's theory of general relativity

does describe the existence of both black and white holes, it doesn't explain how a white

hole might actually form in space. A black hole forms when a dying star implodes in a supernova,

collapsing all of the star's matter into an impossibly tiny area cordoned off from the

rest of space. The reverse doesn't quite make sense - the idea of a white hole exploding into

a fully-functioning star would be a bit like unscrambling an egg: it just wouldn't work.

This idea also violates the statistical law that entropy must increase over time.

Furthermore, if a white hole did form, the matter it releases when it “burps”

would collide with the matter in orbit around the white hole. These collisions

would cause the entire system to collapse into a black hole. Perhaps if white holes do exist,

they don't remain as a white hole for long. Hal Haggard, a theoretical physicist at Bard College

in New York, has said that “a long-lived white hole, I think, is very unlikely.”

Other scientists have different theories about white holes that help

explain some of the inconsistencies. Steven Hawking discovered back in the

1970s that black holes leak energy, which led him to wonder - how do black holes die?

And what happens to everything that's been trapped inside of a black hole when it dies?

The theory of general relativity holds that nothing can get out of a black hole, but quantum

mechanics prevents any information inside a black hole from being deleted. So where does it go?

Some have taken this to mean that a white hole is actually the result of the death of a black hole.

As a black hole dies, it may become so small - as small as one microgram in size,

about the mass of a human hair - that it would no longer obey the laws of physics as we know them.

This infinitesimally tiny object would be so small that it would defy gravity,

but inside it would hide a cavernous interior full of everything it swallowed

in its previous life as a black hole. It's small size and gravity-defying

behaviour could allow it to remain stable enough to eventually spit out information

and matter that had been swallowed by the black hole, becoming a “burping” white hole instead.

If this theory holds true, the universe could one day come to be dominated by white holes.

After all of the stars in the universe have burnt out and imploded into black holes, and then after

all of those black holes themselves have all died, the universe might be nothing but a sea of burping

white holes. Thankfully, this could only happen in a universe countless trillions of times older

than our universe currently is, so it's not a scenario we need to worry about any time soon.

There are many more questions than answers when it comes to white holes, and that leaves room for

plenty of imaginative theories about what a white hole actually is. Some scientists actually think

that we are currently living inside the ultimate white hole. To these black hole physicists,

the behavior of a white hole looks suspiciously similar to a little thing we call the Big Bang.

The explosion of matter and energy resulting from the Big Bang that created our universe

is remarkably similar to the way theorists suspect that white holes release matter.

“The geometry is very similar in the two cases," Hal Haggard, the physicist from Bard College, has

said. "Even to the point of being mathematically identical at times." This theory has attracted

plenty of criticism, but Haggard intends to follow this rabbit hole to the very end,

saying “Why wouldn't you investigate whether white holes have interesting consequences? It may be

that those consequences aren't what you expected, but it would be foolhardy to ignore them.”

We may still be a long way off from being able to look into a telescope and watch with our own

eyes as a white hole burps out matter into the surrounding universe. Although we've only just

gotten our first glimpse of a black hole - and though we have yet to even lay eyes on a white

hole - scientists will undoubtedly discover more about these mysterious phenomena in the future.

If the past has taught us anything, it's that just because we can't see something

doesn't mean it isn't out there. Only time will tell which theory about white holes

will prove to be correct - or if we had it completely wrong all along. One day we may

get an answer to the question “What is a white hole?” but until then, it remains

yet another of the countless as-yet-unsolved mysteries of our vast and unknowable universe.

If you thought this video was fascinating, you'll definitely want to check out “What

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What Is a White Hole? (Opposite of Black Hole) What is|||||||| Was ist ein Weißes Loch (das Gegenteil eines Schwarzen Lochs)? Τι είναι η Λευκή Τρύπα; (Το αντίθετο της Μαύρης Τρύπας) ¿Qué es un agujero blanco? (Opuesto a agujero negro) Qu'est-ce qu'un trou blanc ? (Opposé au trou noir) Cos'è un buco bianco (opposto al buco nero) ホワイトホールとは?(ブラックホールの反対) Wat is een wit gat? (Tegenovergestelde van zwart gat) Co to jest biała dziura (przeciwieństwo czarnej dziury)? O que é um buraco branco? (O oposto de buraco negro) Что такое белая дыра? (Противоположность черной дыры) Beyaz Delik Nedir? (Kara Deliğin Zıttı) 什么是白洞? (与黑洞相对) 什麼是白洞? (與黑洞相對)

A celebrated astrophysicist is intently studying  the skies in search of his elusive quarry, ||renowned space scientist||||||||||| Um célebre astrofísico estuda atentamente os céus em busca da sua esquiva presa,

combing through the thousands of images coming  to him from the state-of-the-art International examining carefully||||||||||||||| a passar a pente fino os milhares de imagens que lhe chegam do moderno Centro Internacional de прочесывает тысячи изображений, поступающих к нему с ультрасовременного Международного

Event Horizon telescope. Finally, after months  and months of searching, he thinks he may have

found what he's been looking for all this time  - in the images he sees the telltale signs of a |||||||||||||||revealing indicators|||

mysterious phenomenon called a black hole. But  as he scrutinizes the images captured by the |||||||||closely examines|||||

powerful telescope, something doesn't seem quite  right. There, right in front of his very eyes,

the black hole appears to be … burping!? The  scientist knows that this should be impossible: ||||||releasing energy unexpectedly|||||||| atrodo, kad juodoji skylė ... trūkinėja !? Mokslininkas žino, kad tai turėtų būti neįmanoma:

nothing can escape from a black hole, not even  light - that's why they're so hard to find - but nieko negali ištrūkti iš juodosios skylės, net šviesos - todėl juos taip sunku rasti, bet

here is photographic evidence of matter coming  out of a black hole! Could it be that this is ||photo-based||||||||||||||| čia yra fotografijos įrodymai, kad medžiaga išlenda iš juodosios skylės! Ar gali būti, kad taip yra

not a black hole at all, but the black hole's  neglected twin - a white hole? Could this be his |||||||||hole's|overlooked|||||||| não é de todo um buraco negro, mas o gémeo negligenciado do buraco negro - um buraco branco? Poderá ser este o seu

chance to once and for all answer the questions  that have been nagging at him throughout his whole ||||||||||||persistent bothering thoughts||||| шанс раз и навсегда ответить на вопросы, которые не давали ему покоя на протяжении всего его

career - What is a white hole? How do they form?  How do they work!? And, do they even exist at all?

In 1915, Einstein's field equations turned  the world of physics on its head. His theory |Einstein's|||||||||||| В 1915 году уравнения поля Эйнштейна перевернули мир физики. Его теория

of relativity described the force of gravity  and shattered the prevailing paradigm of the ||||||||broke apart|||||

nature of reality - rather than being rigid,  space and time can actually bend and fold, ||||||inflexible||||||curve and flex|| a natureza da realidade - em vez de serem rígidos, o espaço e o tempo podem, de facto, dobrar-se e desdobrar-se,

along with the mass of stars and planets.  Within a year, scientists had calculated how

space-time curves around a single ball of mass -  the seeds of what today is called the singularity.

Physicists were able to describe how a spherical  mass shrunken down to infinitely dense point |||||||spherical||compressed to singularity|||extremely densely compacted|extremely compact|

could wrap space around it so tightly  that a region of space is effectively

pinched off from rest of universe, creating  a no-mans land beyond the event horizon where Separated from|||||||||no one's|||||| do resto do universo, criando uma terra de ninguém para além do horizonte de eventos onde

the laws of physics no longer apply and the  link between cause and effect is shattered.

A black hole is an incredibly dense  area of space where all matter has

been squeezed into an impossibly tiny space,  called the singularity. This creates such an

intense gravitational pull that nothing, not even  light, can escape from the black hole's clutches. ||||||||||||||grasp

A tiny black hole might be the size of a single  atom, but have a mass equal to a large mountain.

Stellar black holes, formed when a dying  star collapses in on itself in a supernova, of stars||||||||||||||

can have a mass up to 20 times greater than  our sun. The largest black holes are called

supermassive black holes, and they can be found  at the center of every galaxy in our universe. The

supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky  Way galaxy, named Sagittarius A*, has as much mass ||||||||||||Sagittarius A|||||

as 4 million of our suns, all condensed into a  tiny ball only as big as a few million Earths.

A black hole's event horizon is what we would  consider the surface of the black hole, although

it's not a surface in the true sense of the word  - it's not a membrane or barrier, but rather, the ||||||||||||||membrane|||||

threshold beyond which there is no going back. The  event horizon is the point of no return - nothing riba, kurią peržengus nėra kelio atgal. Įvykio horizontas yra negrįžimo taškas - nieko limiar para além do qual não é possível voltar atrás. O horizonte de eventos é o ponto de não retorno - nada

that crosses the event horizon can ever come back.  Even light cannot escape the black hole once it's

passed the event horizon. Once something -  or someone - has crossed the event horizon,

they will begin the inevitable process of  falling towards the black hole's singularity,

eventually dissolving into the singularity  itself. We can only guess what happens after that. |merging into singularity|||black hole|||||||||

Physicists have been studying black  holes for decades and are only just

beginning to understand them. Only recently have

they turned their attention to the black  hole's neglected twin - the white hole. ||||||||overlooked||||

From afar, a white hole would appear  identical to its better-known cousin, |from a distance|||||||||||related phenomenon De longe, um buraco branco pareceria idêntico ao seu primo mais conhecido,

a black hole. Like a black hole, a  white hole might be big or small,

might spin or remain stationary, and might be  electrically charged. A white hole would also ||||||||with electric charge|||||| gali suktis arba likti nejudantis ir būti įkrautas elektra. Taip pat būtų baltoji skylė pode girar ou permanecer estacionário, e pode ter carga eléctrica. Um buraco branco também

be surrounded by a ring of dust, and a cloud of  gas and debris would gather at its event horizon. |||||||||||||scattered fragments||accumulate|||point of no return| būti apsuptas dulkių žiedo, o jo įvykių horizonte susirinks dujų ir šiukšlių debesis.

The key difference between a black hole  and a white hole is that white holes burp. |||||||||||||||expel matter explosively

Yes, burp. Unlike a black hole,  from which nothing can escape,

matter actually can cross the event horizon and  come out of a white hole. It's only in these

moments, when objects emerge from the white  hole, that scientists can definitively say |||come out|||||||||

that what they are looking at is a  white hole, and not a black hole.

If a black hole's event horizon is the point of  no return, then the event horizon of a white hole

could be described as the point of no admission  - nothing can ever cross the event horizon of ||||||||no entry point||||||||

a white hole and reach the interior. In a black  hole, objects in the space outside can cross the ||||||inside region||||||||||||

event horizon and affect the interior of the black  hole, but matter inside the black hole can never

again interact with space outside. In a white  hole, the reverse holds true - objects from inside ||||||||||opposite direction|||||

the white hole can cross the event horizon and  interact with objects in the space outside of it,

but nothing on the outside can ever enter  the white hole or affect the inside.

This is because a white hole is a black  hole's time reversal, according to physicists. Pasak fizikų, baltoji skylė yra juodosios skylės laiko pasikeitimas. Isto porque, segundo os físicos, um buraco branco é a inversão temporal de um buraco negro.

A black hole's singularity exists in the future,  whereas a white hole's singularity exists in the Juodosios skylės singuliarumas egzistuoja ateityje, o baltosios skylės - singuliarumas

past. Since the interior of the white hole is  cut off from the universe's past via its event |||||||||||||universe|||| praeitis. Kadangi baltosios skylės vidus yra nutrauktas nuo visatos praeities per jos įvykį passado. Uma vez que o interior do buraco branco está isolado do passado do universo através do seu evento

horizon, no outside object or event will ever  affect the inside of a white hole. James Bardeen, ||||||||||||||||James Bardeen

a black hole pioneer and professor  emeritus at the University of Washington ||||||retired with honor|||||University of Washington

explains the magnitude of this difference:  “Somehow it's more disturbing to have a ||extent|||||||more unsettling|||

singularity in the past than can affect  everything in the outside world”, he says.

Scientists had theorized about the existence  of black holes for hundreds of years before

Einstein's theory of relativity paved  the way for physicists to prove their ||||prepared the path||||||| A teoria da relatividade de Einstein abriu caminho para que os físicos provassem a sua

existence - theoretically, at least. Since  no light escapes from a black hole, they are |in principle|||||||||||| egzistavimas - bent jau teoriškai. Kadangi iš juodosios skylės neišbėga jokia šviesa, jie yra

invisible to the naked eye. Until very recently,  the only way scientists have been able to find plika akimi nematoma. Visai neseniai mokslininkams pavyko rasti vienintelį būdą

evidence of black holes has been to look for  signs of their impact on the surrounding universe.

Stars, gasses and other space objects behave  differently near a black hole than they do |Gases|||||act or move|||||||| Žvaigždės, dujos ir kiti kosminiai objektai šalia juodosios skylės elgiasi kitaip nei elgiasi

elsewhere in the universe as the black hole's  intense gravity pulls on them. Using telescopes

equipped with special tools, scientists can  pick up a type of high-energy light emitted aprūpinti specialiais įrankiais, mokslininkai gali pasiimti tam tikrą energiją skleidžiančią šviesą

by objects that interact with a black hole's  gravitational forces, and reverberation mapping |||||||||||Echoes| objektai, kurie sąveikauja su juodosios skylės gravitacinėmis jėgomis, ir reverberacijos žemėlapiai por objectos que interagem com as forças gravitacionais de um buraco negro, e o mapeamento da reverberação

can measure the radiation given off by the ring  of debris that surrounds the black hole, helping ||||||||||scattered fragments|||||| pode medir a radiação emitida pelo anel de detritos que rodeia o buraco negro, ajudando

physicists pinpoint the location of a black hole,  even if they can't see the black hole itself. |Identify precisely||||||||||||||| os físicos localizam um buraco negro, mesmo que não consigam ver o próprio buraco negro. Физики точно определяют местоположение черной дыры, даже если не могут увидеть саму черную дыру.

Finally, in 2019, scientists made a stunning  breakthrough in the study of black holes |||||remarkable|||||||

when the International Event Horizon telescope  captured the world's first image of a black hole.

Technically, what they captured was the  black hole's shadow, since the absence of

light reflecting from a black hole makes the black  hole itself impossible to see, but nevertheless,

this was the world's first solid, photographic  proof of the existence of black holes.

If black holes have finally been proven to be  real, does that mean that white holes are a proven

fact of the universe, too? Well, not exactly.  While Einstein's theory of general relativity

does describe the existence of both black and  white holes, it doesn't explain how a white

hole might actually form in space. A black hole  forms when a dying star implodes in a supernova, skylė iš tikrųjų gali susidaryti kosmose. Juodoji skylė susidaro, kai mirštanti žvaigždė įsitvirtina supernovoje,

collapsing all of the star's matter into an  impossibly tiny area cordoned off from the ||||star's matter|||||||isolated from|||

rest of space. The reverse doesn't quite make  sense - the idea of a white hole exploding into ||||opposite direction|||||||||||| likusi erdvė. Atvirkščiai nėra prasmės - sprogsta baltosios skylės idėja

a fully-functioning star would be a bit like  unscrambling an egg: it just wouldn't work. |||||||||reversing a process|||||| pilnai veikianti žvaigždė būtų šiek tiek panaši į kiaušinio iššukavimą: ji tiesiog neveiktų. uma estrela totalmente funcional seria um pouco como desembaralhar um ovo: simplesmente não funcionaria.

This idea also violates the statistical  law that entropy must increase over time. |||goes against|||||disorder or randomness||||

Furthermore, if a white hole did form,  the matter it releases when it “burps” |||||||||||||expels matter Более того, если белая дыра действительно образовалась, то вещество, которое она выбрасывает при "отрыжке"

would collide with the matter in orbit  around the white hole. These collisions |crash into|||||||||||

would cause the entire system to collapse into  a black hole. Perhaps if white holes do exist,

they don't remain as a white hole for long. Hal  Haggard, a theoretical physicist at Bard College |||||||||Hal Haggard|a person's name|||||Bard College|educational institution jie ilgai nelieka kaip balta skylė. Halas Haggardas, teorinis fizikas iš Bardo koledžo

in New York, has said that “a long-lived  white hole, I think, is very unlikely.” Niujorke sakė, kad „ilgai gyvenanti baltoji skylė, manau, yra mažai tikėtina“.

Other scientists have different  theories about white holes that help

explain some of the inconsistencies.  Steven Hawking discovered back in the |||||Hawking|Stephen Hawking||||

1970s that black holes leak energy, which  led him to wonder - how do black holes die? ||||emit or release||||||||||| Aštuntajame dešimtmetyje juodosios skylės nutekėjo energija, kuri paskatino jį susimąstyti - kaip žūsta juodosios skylės?

And what happens to everything that's been  trapped inside of a black hole when it dies?

The theory of general relativity holds that  nothing can get out of a black hole, but quantum

mechanics prevents any information inside a black  hole from being deleted. So where does it go?

Some have taken this to mean that a white hole is  actually the result of the death of a black hole. Kai kurie suprato, kad baltoji skylė iš tikrųjų yra juodosios skylės mirties rezultatas.

As a black hole dies, it may become so  small - as small as one microgram in size, ||||||||||||||tiny weight unit||

about the mass of a human hair - that it would no  longer obey the laws of physics as we know them. ||||||||||||follow|||||||| apie žmogaus plaukų masę - kad jie nebepaklustų fizikos dėsniams, kaip mes juos žinome.

This infinitesimally tiny object would  be so small that it would defy gravity, |extremely minuscule||||||||||resist or ignore| Этот бесконечно малый объект был бы настолько мал, что не поддавался бы гравитации,

but inside it would hide a cavernous  interior full of everything it swallowed ||||||Vast, hollow||||||consumed or engulfed bet jo viduje paslėptų urvinį interjerą, pilną visko, ką prarijo

in its previous life as a black hole.  It's small size and gravity-defying |||||||||||||resisting gravitational pull

behaviour could allow it to remain stable  enough to eventually spit out information ||||||||||release||

and matter that had been swallowed by the black  hole, becoming a “burping” white hole instead.

If this theory holds true, the universe could  one day come to be dominated by white holes. |||is valid|||||||||||||

After all of the stars in the universe have burnt  out and imploded into black holes, and then after

all of those black holes themselves have all died,  the universe might be nothing but a sea of burping visos tos juodosios skylės visos mirė, visata gali būti ne kas kita, o burbtelėjimo jūra

white holes. Thankfully, this could only happen  in a universe countless trillions of times older белые дыры. К счастью, это может произойти только во Вселенной, которая в триллионы раз старше.

than our universe currently is, so it's not a  scenario we need to worry about any time soon.

There are many more questions than answers when  it comes to white holes, and that leaves room for |||||||||||||||creates space for||

plenty of imaginative theories about what a white  hole actually is. Some scientists actually think a lot of||creative and speculative||||||||||||

that we are currently living inside the ultimate  white hole. To these black hole physicists,

the behavior of a white hole looks suspiciously  similar to a little thing we call the Big Bang. |||||||strangely like||||||||||

The explosion of matter and energy resulting  from the Big Bang that created our universe

is remarkably similar to the way theorists  suspect that white holes release matter.

“The geometry is very similar in the two cases,"  Hal Haggard, the physicist from Bard College, has |shape configuration|||||||||||||||

said. "Even to the point of being mathematically  identical at times." This theory has attracted

plenty of criticism, but Haggard intends  to follow this rabbit hole to the very end, |||||plans|||||||||

saying “Why wouldn't you investigate whether white  holes have interesting consequences? It may be

that those consequences aren't what you expected,  but it would be foolhardy to ignore them.” |||||||||||recklessly bold|||

We may still be a long way off from being able  to look into a telescope and watch with our own

eyes as a white hole burps out matter into the  surrounding universe. Although we've only just

gotten our first glimpse of a black hole - and  though we have yet to even lay eyes on a white |||brief look||||||even if||||||set eyes on|||| pirmą kartą pažvelgėme į juodąją skylę ir, nors mes dar net nepastebėjome akių ant baltos

hole - scientists will undoubtedly discover more  about these mysterious phenomena in the future. |||without a doubt|||||||||

If the past has taught us anything, it's  that just because we can't see something ||||shown us||||||||||

doesn't mean it isn't out there. Only time  will tell which theory about white holes

will prove to be correct - or if we had it  completely wrong all along. One day we may pasirodys teisinga - arba jei visą laiką turėtume tai visiškai neteisingai. Vieną dieną galime

get an answer to the question “What is a  white hole?” but until then, it remains

yet another of the countless as-yet-unsolved  mysteries of our vast and unknowable universe. |||||||||||immense||impossible to understand|

If you thought this video was fascinating,  you'll definitely want to check out “What

Would Happen to Your Body in Space?”, or,  you might like this other interesting one!