Black holes might have infinite shapes. In a new study, mathematicians explained when black holes could have other shapes than the doughnut form.
In this handout photo provided by the National Science Foundation, the Event Horizon Telescope captures a black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon, in an image released on April 10, 2019.
For the past years, scientists concluded that black holes always have spherical shapes.
This is already proven since stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies then to have round forms or other similar shapes.
However, a new study explained that this doesn't apply to higher dimensions. The new study "Black Lenses in Kaluza-Klein Matter" explained how it happens.
Black Holes Might Have Infinite Shapes!
According to The Wired's latest report, the new study's findings are still theoretical.
This means that it can't prove that black holes with different shapes exist in nature.
In this handout from NASA/ESA, an artist's concept illustrates a quasar, or feeding black hole. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) revealed millions of potential black holes in its survey of the sky in 2011. The WISE telescope, which ceased operation is February of 2011 after it ran out of coolant to keep its electronics cool, made the full sky image and was released to the public in March with hopes of astronomers making discoveries.
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However, Marcus Khuri, a study's co-author, explained that black holes could have other shapes than the traditional form if the universe is really higher-dimensional.
"So it's now a matter of waiting to see if our experiments can detect any," explained Khuri.
Involved mathematicians said that there's a possibility that black holes could have infinite shapes if they are dimensions five and above.
The latest study showed that the general relativity equations of Albert Einstein can produce exotic-looking higher-dimensional black holes.
Other Black Hole Discoveries
Recently, space experts discovered an ultra-massive black hole that has a mass comparable to 30 billion suns.
They were able to detect the presence of this enormous black hole by solving the mystery behind the creation of an arc light.
You can click this link to learn more about this massive black hole.
In other news, a new dark matter hunting technique was created by scientists using neutrino detectors. We also reported that the NASA Hubble Space Telescope peered through the glowing remains of a star similar to the sun.
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