Black holes remain a great source of mystery to us humans, but I think we should all maintain the theory that if we pass through one we end up in a strange cartoon land, like a green room for The Simpsons, where characters loiter before heading for filming. That's until we know more, anyway.
Scientists are trying to play down this theory by saying that black holes are a doorway to other dimensions, which is exciting, but nowhere near as thrilling as having a pint with Peter Griffin in The Clam.
New research in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity says that it is actually possible to get through a black hole without being pulverised into chunks, as other research has claimed, but it's still not really worth it. You'd get to the other side of the hole, but unlike landing at Marmaris airport, getting through extensive Turk security checks to eventually be greeted by a well-earned Efes in the sun, you'd be met by the bitter tasting scallop of death, the Independent reports.
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With that being said, during the travelling process, you'd be chopped, changed and stretched like spaghetti, only to be reduced back to your normal size once the journey is complete. Sounds kind of like a particular airline flight.
"Our theory naturally resolves several problems in the interpretation of electrically-charged black holes," Dr Gonzalo Olmo, from the University of Valencia in Spain, said. "In the first instance, we resolve the problem of the singularity, since there is a door at the centre of the black hole, the wormhole, through which space and time can continue."
Basically, at the centre of the void there will be a surface that acts like a wormhole, performing as "a doorway or tunnel through the fabric of spacetime," or so the research claims.
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