A wormhole collides with a black hole -- what would happen?

In summary, if a wormhole collides with a black hole, the wormhole would most likely collapse due to the instability caused by the large amount of mass in the black hole. However, there are different types of wormhole solutions that may not be affected by the black hole and could potentially reform or coexist with it. The exact outcome would depend on the specific characteristics of the wormhole and black hole involved.
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A wormhole collides with a black hole
A wormhole collides with a black hole------------what would happen?
 
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What do you think and why?
 
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Brianok said:
Summary: A wormhole collides with a black hole

A wormhole collides with a black hole------------what would happen?
A wormhole is a mathematical construct, so nobody can tell what nature would do. I recently heard from the physicist that wormholes are unstable as soon as matter falls in, and a black hole is a large amount of matter, or at least mass. So according to this scientists, the wormhole would collapse and the black hole would remain.
 
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I understood wormholes to be a function of black holes rather than being separate entities. Now I got to go do some reading.
If my recollections are correct, if a wormhole with a black hole at each end met another black hole then the wormhole would either collapse or reform with one end intact and the other connected with the new larger black hole.
The reform part sounds sketchy, requiring that above mentioned reading.
 
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I understood wormholes to be a function of black holes rather than being separate entities.

There is a particular kind of wormhole, sometimes called an "Einstein-Rosen bridge", that occurs in the maximally extended Schwarzschild spacetime, which describes an "eternal" black hole that doesn't form from the collapse of a massive object but exists infinitely into both the past and the future. Obviously this solution is not physically reasonable, but it exists mathematically.

However, there are plenty of other wormhole solutions (the simplest is the one published in the late 1980s by Thorne, Morris, and Yurtsever) which have nothing to do with black holes.

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If my recollections are correct, if a wormhole with a black hole at each end met another black hole then the wormhole would either collapse or reform with one end intact and the other connected with the new larger black hole.

This is not what happens with the Einstein-Rosen bridge referred to above. In that spacetime, there are two exterior universes that start out separate, with a white hole in between them. Then they get connected by a wormhole that starts at zero size, grows to some maximum size that depends on the mass of the white hole, and then shrinks back to zero again and disappears, leaving the two exterior universes separate again. During this process the white hole turns into a black hole. The wormhole disappears so fast that nothing can travel through it; anything that tries to ends up inside the black hole.
 
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1. What is a wormhole and a black hole?

A wormhole is a hypothetical tunnel-like structure that connects two distant points in space-time. It is often described as a shortcut through space. A black hole, on the other hand, is a region in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape from it.

2. Can a wormhole actually collide with a black hole?

Currently, there is no evidence to suggest that wormholes or black holes can actually collide with each other. However, if they were to collide, it would have significant implications on our understanding of the laws of physics.

3. What would happen if a wormhole collided with a black hole?

If a wormhole were to collide with a black hole, it is likely that the wormhole would be destroyed. The intense gravitational forces of the black hole would tear apart the fabric of the wormhole, causing it to collapse.

4. Would the black hole's event horizon be affected by the collision?

The event horizon of a black hole is the point of no return, where the gravitational pull is so strong that escape is impossible. It is unlikely that the event horizon would be affected by the collision, as it is defined by the black hole's mass and not by external factors.

5. Could the collision create a new type of singularity?

A singularity is a point in space where the laws of physics break down. It is possible that the collision of a wormhole and a black hole could create a new type of singularity, but this is purely speculative and would require further research and evidence to confirm.

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