A Mathematical Model of a Wormhole

Arya Dutta, a student in the Katz School’s Ph.D. in Mathematics, stands beside a diagram of a wormhole via Yeshiva University

Published in the International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, Arya Dutta, a Ph.D. student in Mathematics at the Katz School has developed a mathematical model of a wormhole.

A wormhole, he said, can be formed by joining two black holes together—but with their singular, infinitely dense cores removed—so that matter and light could pass smoothly from one end to the other. The tricky part is keeping the tunnel open. “To build a wormhole, you need a very unusual kind of matter that has negative energy-density,” said Dutta. “It’s not like normal matter; it’s more like dark energy or dark matter.”

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