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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Scientists simulate ‘baby’ wormhole without rupturing space and time

A simulation of wormhole behaviour.
A simulation of wormhole behaviour observed on Google’s Sycamore quantum processor. Photograph: CALTECH/Reuters

It’s a mainstay of science fiction, it’s tiny and it doesn’t exist in physical space, but researchers say they’ve created what is, theoretically, a worm hole.

Researchers have announced that they simulated two miniscule black holes in a quantum computer and transmitted a message between them through what amounted to a tunnel in space-time.

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