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Physicists Simulated What Might Happen When Two Wormholes Collide, And Things Got Weird : ScienceAlert (opens in a new tab)
sciencealert.com · 2026-10-17
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Physicists Simulated What Might Happen When Two Wormholes Collide, And Things Got Weird : ScienceAlert
sciencealert.com · 2026-10-17
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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedA preprint by physicist Nikita M. Shirokov and machine learning engineer Ilya Nachevsky simulated what can happen when binary Ellis-Bronnikov wormholes interact.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedThe simulations found that, depending on configuration, the wormholes could attract or repel one another, pass close enough to interact and then fly apart, or plunge toward each other and form a common apparent horizon around both throats.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedIn one simulated outcome, the apparent horizon shrank by about 28 percent in area as phantom scalar field fell into the collapsing region.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe authors say wormhole encounters would produce gravitational-wave signals unlike black-hole inspirals, with short, sharp bursts rather than a chirp, and that close flybys could generate strong bursts even without a common apparent horizon.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe story says the signals might be undetectable if the wormholes formed in the early Universe because cosmic expansion would redshift them to frequencies below current or planned observatories.View evidenceHide evidence
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Comment on: “Klein–Gordon oscillator under gravitational effects in a topologically charged Ellis–Bronnikov wormhole”
Modern Physics Letters a · 2024 · Crossref
Shadow and weak gravitational lensing for Ellis-Bronnikov wormhole*
Chinese Physics C · 2024 · Crossref
Generalized Ellis-Bronnikov Wormhole Solution in the scalar-Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet 4d Gravitational Model
International Journal of Theoretical Physics · 2025 · Crossref
Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau oscillator in topologically charged Ellis-Bronnikov-type wormhole
2023 · Crossref
Accretion Flow onto Ellis–Bronnikov Wormhole
Universe · 2021 · Crossref