What Black Hole Images Actually Show (and Why a Wormhole Would Look Different)

The EHT images of M87* and Sgr A* are remarkable not because they surprised us, but because they confirmed a century-old prediction at microarcsecond precision. The more interesting question: what would a wormhole look like? Completely different — and we have never seen that.

17 October 2022 · 8 min · Sebastian Spicker