unknownskywalker: Stars could have wormholes at their cores Astrophysicists have tended to imagine wormholes as empty tunnel-like superhighways between one region of empty space and another. But Vladimir Dzhunushaliev et al. at the Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan have a different idea. They say there’s no reason why wormholes can’t be packed full of matter. They begin by imagining an ordinary star or a neutron star with a wormhole at its heart. For a distant observer, such a star would very much look like an ordinary star. However, there would be some important differences. For a start, this star would have to have a twin at the other end of the wormhole. These stars would be like Siamese twins, joined at the hip by the most bizarre of connections. The exotic matter in the wormhole would be able to flow back and forth, like liquid in a u-tube, setting up a kind of resonance that makes the stars oscillate, releasing energy in all kinds of ways and creating ultra high energy cosmic rays. Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1102.4454: “A Star Harbouring A Wormhole At Its Center”

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Stars could have wormholes at their cores

Astrophysicists have tended to imagine wormholes as empty tunnel-like superhighways between one region of empty space and another. But Vladimir Dzhunushaliev et al. at the Eurasian National University in Kazakhstan have a different idea. They say there’s no reason why wormholes can’t be packed full of matter. They begin by imagining an ordinary star or a neutron star with a wormhole at its heart.

For a distant observer, such a star would very much look like an ordinary star. However, there would be some important differences. For a start, this star would have to have a twin at the other end of the wormhole. These stars would be like Siamese twins, joined at the hip by the most bizarre of connections. The exotic matter in the wormhole would be able to flow back and forth, like liquid in a u-tube, setting up a kind of resonance that makes the stars oscillate, releasing energy in all kinds of ways and creating ultra high energy cosmic rays.

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1102.4454: “A Star Harbouring A Wormhole At Its Center”