Scientist Suggests Evidence That 'Our Entire Universe Is Inside A Black Hole'

A space scientist has put forward a bold claim: the idea that our entire universe might actually be ‘trapped’ inside a black hole, and he's urging astronomers to reconsider long-standing beliefs about how the universe works.

According to NASA, scientists estimate that the universe is around 13.7 billion years old.

Even though space exploration officially began nearly 70 years ago, an astonishing 95 percent of the cosmos still remains uncharted and mysterious to us.

Sure, human astronauts have only traveled as far as the Moon, but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists can now look even deeper into space. Using advanced infrared technology, the JWST can gather and focus light from distant corners of the universe.

Since its launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana back in 2021, the telescope has provided a wealth of information. It has shown scientists how stars and planets come to life, detected water vapor in young planet-forming disks, and even picked up carbon dioxide emissions from Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa.

Now, an associate professor of computer science from Kansas State University believes the JWST might have captured images suggesting that we could be living inside a black hole.

Lior Shamir, who worked on analyzing images for the telescope's Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, often referred to as JADES, has recently published new findings. His research appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

New evidence suggests our universe could be inside a black hole NASA

In his paper titled 'The distribution of galaxy rotation in JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey,' Shamir explains how he applied a computer-aided quantitative method to examine galaxy rotations captured by the telescope.

In his analysis, Shamir noted that out of the 263 galaxies observed in the JADES field, about two-thirds showed clockwise rotation, while roughly one-third spun in the opposite direction, counterclockwise.

According to a press release from Kansas State University, under normal circumstances, you’d expect the number of galaxies rotating in one direction to roughly match the number going the other way. So, Shamir’s findings came as a surprising twist.

"The analysis of the galaxies was done by quantitative analysis of their shapes, but the difference is so obvious that any person looking at the image can see it," the study's lead author commented.

"There is no need for special skills or knowledge to see that the numbers are different. With the power of the James Webb Space Telescope, anyone can see it."

While Shamir doesn’t yet have a definitive explanation for why so many galaxies appear to be spinning clockwise, he has proposed two possible theories to account for the imbalance.

A scientist has requested astronomers recalibrate Milky Way distance measurements NASA

"One explanation is that the universe was born rotating. That explanation agrees with theories such as black hole cosmology, which postulates that the entire universe is the interior of a black hole."

"But if the universe was indeed born rotating it means that the existing theories about the cosmos are incomplete."

According to Space.com, if we really are inside a black hole, then the other dense, dark objects that scientists often detect could actually be wormholes—also called Einstein-Rosen bridges—that connect to other universes entirely.

Sadly, because of how dense and lightless they are, scientists are currently unable to peer inside these mysterious regions or fully uncover their hidden secrets.

Backing Shamir’s intriguing theory is Nikodem Poplawski, a theoretical physicist based at the University of New Haven.

"I think that the simplest explanation of the rotating universe is the universe was born in a rotating black hole," he shared with Space.com.

"A preferred axis in our universe, inherited by the axis of rotation of its parent black hole, might have influenced the rotation dynamics of galaxies, creating the observed clockwise-counterclockwise asymmetry."

The second theory Shamir offered suggests that the Milky Way’s own movement might be playing tricks on us. Essentially, the 'relative motion of the Milky Way' could be causing the galaxies that rotate the other way to appear more frequently, he explained.

"The motion makes them brighter, and that is why we see more of them," the expert noted, referring to the Doppler Shift phenomenon.

The Doppler Shift refers to the way waves, including light, appear to change depending on how the source moves in relation to the observer. It’s this effect that might make galaxies rotating against our perspective look brighter in images.

"But I might be wrong, and in that case, the real Universe has more galaxies that rotate in the same direction," he added.

Based on these observations, Shamir is now encouraging astronomers to reconsider how the slow rotational velocity of the Milky Way might be skewing their measurements.

"The re-calibration of distance measurements can also explain several other unsolved questions in cosmology such as the differences in the expansion rates of the universe and the large galaxies that according to the existing distance measurements are expected to be older than the universe itself," he noted.

For those who want to dive deeper, you can check out Shamir's full research paper here.