In movies and TV shows, wormholes are typically depicted as tunnels that move travelers between two points in time and space. While long theorized (they were first predicted in 1916), these mystical objects have never been observed by scientists. Now researchers predict that wormholes could be hiding in plain sight [1]. Simulating the polarized light emissions for wormholes and black holes, Petya Nedkova and colleagues from Sofia University, Bulgaria, predict that there may be only slight differences in the spectra of the polarized light emanating from a traversable wormhole and from a black hole.

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