Over the last year, U. Mass Dartmouth physicsist Gaurav Khanna and his colleagues have been using a high-powered platform of computers to simulate the interior of a rotating black hole.
Although moviegoers have been treated to a view of the interior maelstrom in the popular film Interstellar, scientists have actually never been able to simulate the inside of a black hole until now.
The good news is that, theoretically, using a black hole as a portal to other points in the universe could be possible.
“This has never been done before,” Khanna told me in an email, “although there has been lots of speculation for decades on what actually happens inside a black hole.”
The problem is challenging. Together with Lior M. Burko, professor at the School of Science and Technology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia; and Anil Zenginoglu of the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland; Khanna developed several new mathematical and computational techniques which they applied with the help of Khanna’s unique Sony Playstation based array of processors.
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