Worm Holes and Black Holes, are they the same?

Question

Ok, I just asked this question, but no one could provide information them back them up except one person. I just want to know if Worm Holes and Black Holes are the same.

I need something I can reference and understand. For instance, this link states that Worm Holes are black and white holes that fuse to make a worm hole:
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/BHfaq.html#q11

Is this true? This is from Berkeley, and I have a hard time believing it is not factual.

I have been reading about worm holes and some explain they are black holes or white and black holes or something else. The reason I researched and am asking about this is because a few people have told me they are Black Holes and the same thing. Is this true? What are they? How can they be both black holes and worm holes? Wouldn't going through a worm hole crush us?

One last thing, I know Worm Holes and White Holes are not real and just theory, but now people are telling me that Black Holes themselves are not real. Can someone clarify? Not with their opinion, but with proof to back them up?

Answer 1

Black holes are real. We cannot directly observe them since they don't emit radiation, but we can observe their gravitational influence on objects and the matter falling into them emits radiation. They are accepted by everyone in the field. Black holes are dense, dead stars. They are not actually holes in space - they don't go anywhere. They're just very massive objects.



Worm holes might exist, but probably don't. They come out of the math, but have not been observed. Theoretically, they would connect two distant parts of the universe so you wouldn't have to travel all the way between them. White holes have also not been shown to exist. Neither worm holes nor white holes are generally accepted in the scientific community.

Answer 2

There are theories that blackholes create gateways to another part of the universe, which is esentially a wormhole, but we can neither confirm or deny that because we only know blackholes take in dust, gas, space material ect.. and nothing more. We have no evidence where all of it goes. Black holes are very mysterious because they break the laws of physics and time on so many levels. We may never know the true answer. Black holes are real we have they have been sited in the center of most galaxies including our own.

Answer 3

No, they're not. Black holes are created when suns die and then collapse on themselves. They suck any nearby masses into them and what goes into black holes will likely never come back out.



Wormholes are a theory...we're still not even sure if they really exist or not. But if they do, they serve as a "quick" transportation through space and time. Imagine a basketball...the surface of the ball is our universe. If we want to go to the center of the ball (inside it), we wouldn't be able to without a wormhole. Now, if a "tunnel" existed from the surface of the ball to the core of it, that would be like a wormhole in space.

Answer 4

Possibly , i read that black holes may have a white hole at the other side that leads into another dimension or galaxy , so i guess if that is true then worm holes are a natural event

Answer 5

Black holes: When a big star dies.

Worm holes: Hypothetical tunnels through space and time.



They're not the same thing.