New Universes Can Form Inside Dying Stars, Physicists Show
Sabine Hossenfelder
Aug 19, 2026 15:00
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Could our universe have been born inside a collapsing star? That idea recently made headlines, and I got a lot of questions about it. The paper behind them describes a new solution to Einstein's equations in which a collapsing star expands on the inside and never forms a black hole. Let's take a look.
Paper: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/c6lw-nx7k
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