A couple weeks ago I wrote about black holes and some of the mystery surrounding them... but something even more mysterious, and not as well-known are
white holes (see below picture). These are the exact opposite of black holes, spitting out matter, seemingly from out of nowhere! We have
not yet been able to find one of these white holes in real life, but Einstein has mathematically proven that they exist. Although these white holes should exist in theory, there is much debate over whether or not they actually exist in real life. Part of the debate is that they should, in theory, be relatively easy to find, and yet, we've never found one... However, this does not entirely discount the possibility that there are some out there. If you think about it though, if black holes are taking away matter from the universe, shouldn't there be something counteracting this? If matter is being taken away, something must be putting matter back in, or the universe is slowly being eaten up by black holes! If a white hole did, theoretically exist, it would not be as stable as a black hole, and would quickly collapse on itself. Some people actually believe we may have seen white holes in the past, but were not aware of what they were... This
article for example, written in May of 2011, speculates as to whether or not they might have actually found the first white hole! there are a lot of people scoffing at the idea, but hey, like Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her discovery of Pulsars, someone will have to find the first one, why not them?!
This brings me to the second idea of this two part post... the idea of
Dark Matter. Dark matter is another "space mystery". This is another astronomical issue that Einstein was involved with. His famous equation, E=MC^2 is one of our basic laws of physics. However, when applied to the universe, we realize that we have only discovered about 4% of the matter in the universe! So what about the other 96%? This is what scientists have called "Dark Matter". Basically, we don't know. This opens the doors for creativity and speculation... the possibility of invisible objects (since we cannot see all of the spectrum... perhaps there is more that hasn't been discovered yet). Which is why I decided to talk about White Holes and Dark Matter together... this is purely speculation, just for fun... I definitely do not have the science background to back it up... but what if Einstein's "wormhole theory" (mentioned in the black hole post) was correct, and black holes are actually portholes to other universes? Then the white holes were portholes from that universe to our own? Then for them, our black holes would be white holes, and our white holes would be black holes! This could possibly account for all the missing matter in the universe... maybe it actually contains multiple universes, and since there are so many black holes in our universe, and little evidence of white holes, their universe has most of the matter. Just a little philosophical "what if" thought to end things off :)
not yet been able to find one of these white holes in real life, but Einstein has mathematically proven that they exist. Although these white holes should exist in theory, there is much debate over whether or not they actually exist in real life. Part of the debate is that they should, in theory, be relatively easy to find, and yet, we've never found one... However, this does not entirely discount the possibility that there are some out there. If you think about it though, if black holes are taking away matter from the universe, shouldn't there be something counteracting this? If matter is being taken away, something must be putting matter back in, or the universe is slowly being eaten up by black holes! If a white hole did, theoretically exist, it would not be as stable as a black hole, and would quickly collapse on itself. Some people actually believe we may have seen white holes in the past, but were not aware of what they were... This article for example, written in May of 2011, speculates as to whether or not they might have actually found the first white hole! there are a lot of people scoffing at the idea, but hey, like Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her discovery of Pulsars, someone will have to find the first one, why not them?! 
This brings me to the second idea of this two part post... the idea of Dark Matter. Dark matter is another "space mystery". This is another astronomical issue that Einstein was involved with. His famous equation, E=MC^2 is one of our basic laws of physics. However, when applied to the universe, we realize that we have only discovered about 4% of the matter in the universe! So what about the other 96%? This is what scientists have called "Dark Matter". Basically, we don't know. This opens the doors for creativity and speculation... the possibility of invisible objects (since we cannot see all of the spectrum... perhaps there is more that hasn't been discovered yet). Which is why I decided to talk about White Holes and Dark Matter together... this is purely speculation, just for fun... I definitely do not have the science background to back it up... but what if Einstein's "wormhole theory" (mentioned in the black hole post) was correct, and black holes are actually portholes to other universes? Then the white holes were portholes from that universe to our own? Then for them, our black holes would be white holes, and our white holes would be black holes! This could possibly account for all the missing matter in the universe... maybe it actually contains multiple universes, and since there are so many black holes in our universe, and little evidence of white holes, their universe has most of the matter. Just a little philosophical "what if" thought to end things off :)
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