The Universe in all its glory is believed to be about 13.8 billion years old. If we go back to the beginning, the Universe was a very different place from what it is today. Theorized to have started from a very high-density and high-temperature state the Universe expanded outward until it cooled forming the first subatomic particles, and later forming the primordial elements that would become the stars, planets and galaxies. All of this is based on the Big Bang Theory which was first put forward by Georges Lemaître in 1927 as cosmic expansion and later built upon by other scientists into the current theory. In 1929 Edwin Hubble, which the Hubble Telescope was named after, determined that galaxies are moving away from one another further adding to the prevailing cosmological model. The theory suggests that right before the Big Bang there was a singularity or state of infiniteness. Such as the high-density, high-temperature state continuing indefinitely. It’s not clear if the singularity caused the Big Bang or if the Big Bang was the singularity. But what if the singularity was from the collapse of a dying star and formation of a black hole in an alternate Universe and we are simply living inside a black hole from another dimension? As early as 1784 John Michell proposed the idea of a body so massive that even light could not escape it. Then in 1916 as part of his general theory of relativity, German born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein’s research predicted the existence of black holes. However it was Karl Schwarzschild who found a solution to Einstein’s field equations further proving it. From this point on a series of strides and further research developed and crystallized the idea of the black hole. The term “black hole” wasn’t coined until 1967 by American astronomer John Wheeler. Its theorized that black holes form when a dying star has spent the last of its fuel and with nothing more to generate energy, it collapses under its immense gravitational field creating a singularity. While black holes cannot be seen, since they do not emit light, they can be detected through the radiation they release and the gravitational field they emit and the effects it has on planetary bodies around it. However, even with being able to locate a black hole, we cannot cross the event horizon to enter one due to its immense gravitational field and survive. So until such time, we can only speculate if we are living inside another universe’s black hole and if other black holes in our Universe each contain additional universes inside going on indefinitely.

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