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Observing a wormhole

  • Yangzhou University
  • Case Western Reserve University

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Abstract

If a wormhole smoothly connects two different spacetimes, then the flux cannot be separately conserved in any of these spaces individually. Then objects propagating in the vicinity of a wormhole in one space must feel the influence of objects propagating in the other space. We show this in the cases of the scalar, electromagnetic, and gravitational field. The case of gravity is perhaps the most interesting. Namely, by studying the orbits of stars around the black hole at the center of our galaxy, we could soon tell if this black hole harbors a traversable wormhole. In particular, with a near future acceleration precision of 10-6 m/s2, a few solar masses star orbiting around Sgr A∗ on the other side of the wormhole at the distance of a few gravitational radii would leave a detectable imprint on the orbit of the S2 star on our side. Alternatively, one can expect the same effect in black hole binary systems, or a black hole-star binary systems.

Original languageEnglish
Article number083513
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume100
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 10 2019

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