What is the difference between a Black Hole and a Worm Hole?

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What is the difference between a Black Hole and a Worm Hole?

Answer 1

Black holes are the result of massive stars collapsing in on themselves and basically falling out of our universe. They compress to such a tiny area its called a singularity. The only thing left of them is their gravity, which is so strong that once you get past a certain point (called the event horizon) there is no turning back. Not even light can exit the event horizon.  Black holes were originally theoretical items, but now astronomers are fairly certain they have id'd several in reality.

Worm holes are still theorectical / fictional. They would be tears in 2 locations of our universe with a 'tunnel' of sorts between them.  If the wormhole was large enough, you would be able to go from one end to the other through the tunnel, bypassing all the distance in between.

Answer 2

In a black hole, you die.

In a worm hole, you can theoretically go somewhere.

Answer 3

no one knows where black hole takes you

Answer 4

Black holes are places where ordinary gravity has become so extreme that it overwhelms all other forces in the Universe. Once inside, nothing can escape a black hole's gravity — not even light.

Some scientists and sci-fi writers speculate that perhaps through some weird physics a black hole may be connected with a so-called "white hole" at some other point in space and time, and that material falling into a black hole would reappear at this other point in space and time. Such a connection to another point in time and space is called a "worm hole". We have no evidence for the existence of such worm holes, and, as described above, you'd be torn apart and fried long before your remains disappeared into a black hole, so even if worm holes do exist, they do not appear to be very useful means of transportation.

Answer 5

Black holes r too big since blackholes r death of a star. wormholes r too small

Answer 6

The black hole as per stars, is the gravity 'sucking in' mechanism.

As per wormholes, the black hole would be the entry port. The white hole would be the exit port.

Wormholes are the tubes in which travel would be possible in fiction or reality....like the stargate show. You can travel in any direction in the wormhole (perhaps) if it were stand alone. And yet it would be the entry and exit ports which govern direction of travel overall.

blackhole----wormhole----whitehole  ---->>>> Direction of travel

2 out 3 which are theoretic (?). No one has seen a white hole, or have they? What about a quasar?

Wormholes are theoretically held open using exotic matter (Higg's boson related or just plain vacuum fluctuations or ZPE).

It would probably take more energy to hold open a wormhole than either a blackhole or whitehole. A major spark point to open the blackhole/create it...and then even more cosmic force/energy to create and sustain a travelling tunnel. The white hole would most likely form naturally at the end and be lower in overall energy....since it is spewing forth all EM radiations.

Theoretical of course. The white hole could be a superior example of hawking radiation...in which...the whole system of:

blackhole----wormhole----whitehole  would shut down due to the high radiation leaking of the white hole.

In theory, if we could create a  "blackhole----wormhole----whitehole" system using exotic matter....we could use the 'system' to travel to distant stars. Shutting down the 'system'  when we remove the exotic matter. A means of controlling nature on our own terms.

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Answer 7

  If a black hole could exist it would be about 3 km in diameter the worm hole would be a dimensionless point.

Answer 8

A worm hole takes you to a different place, time, or dimension.  A black hole is the vacuum of a huge star collapsing in on itself after its death.

Answer 9

worm hole takes you somewhere black hole has no end in site