This is the theory that suggests that the Earth is in a black hole: Is it possible?

If you’ve seen the ‘Men in Black’ movie, you may remember the final scene when the camera pans out until the entire universe is inside a marble which a creature is playing with along with other marbles with universes inside of them too. The idea of a multiverse has been around for very long time.

One possible link between these universes is theorized to be black holes. While we understand a fair amount about these celestial phenomena, they are also perplexing as they befuddle our understanding of physics. But from what we do understand about them has led to the idea that our universe may just happen to be inside of one.

The theories that suggests that the Earth is in a black hole

There are a couple of theories about how it is that our universe could possibly exist within a black hole.

One theory developed in the 1990s, which is now mainstream, proposes that we live in a holographic universe. There was even a study not so long ago that showed evidence supporting the idea “that stands up almost as well as the standard cosmological model currently accepted by astronomers,” according to IFLScience.

In this theory “the universe and everything in it is a three-dimensional projection from a two-dimensional plane,” explains Brandeis Magazine. “This plane is encoded with what physicists call ‘information,’ the bits and bytes of computer code that give rise to the universe in its three-dimensional form.”

Essentially, what we see is the three-dimensional representation of the universe being projected from the two-dimensional plane of the interior surface of a black hole.

Another hypothesis is that our universe is the product of a black hole, and we’re still inside it. Dr Alastair Gunn explains in BBC Science Focus that one of the most notable facts that supports this idea is “that if we calculate the size of a black hole with mass and energy equal to all the mass and energy we can see in the Universe, we get a surprising result: it’s almost the same size of the observable Universe!”

When a black hole is created by the death of a massive star, its matter collapses in on itself crushing it into a point of singularity. At this point the laws of physics break down as densities, temperatures and energies are so extreme.

This kind of event could have been the “seed” that gave birth to our universe during the ‘Big Bang’ argues Nikodem Poplawski of the University of New Haven. As well, that would mean that every black hole that we know exists, would thus be another universe, and the black hole that we are in is in an even bigger universe. In either direction it would go on and on, a virtual Russian nesting dolls of black-hole universes.