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Newfound Wormhole Allows Information to Escape Black Holes


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Credit: Tom Mller for Quanta Magazine

In 1985, when Carl Sagan was writing the novel Contact, he needed to quickly transport his protagonist Dr. Ellie Arroway from Earth to the star Vega. He had her enter a black hole and exit light-years away, but he didn't know if this made any sense.

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