Surprise Find Suggests We Possibly Reside Within a Black Hole

In a groundbreaking study published in the prestigious Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a team of researchers from Kansas State University have made a remarkable discovery about the rotation direction of galaxies in the early universe.

The team, whose identities remain undisclosed, analysed 263 galaxies that were observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just 300 million years after the Big Bang. Their findings reveal an intriguing pattern: 40% of these early galaxies rotate counterclockwise, while 60% rotate clockwise. This pattern contradicts current cosmological models, which suggest that galaxies should rotate randomly.

The researchers propose that this pattern could suggest that our universe exists inside a black hole. Shamir, one of the researchers, suggests that the universe might have been born rotating, which could indicate that existing theories about the cosmos are incomplete.

If the Doppler shift effect is the cause, distance measurements for the deep universe will need to be recalibrated. This recalibration could explain several unsolved questions in cosmology, such as the differences in the expansion rates of the universe and the large galaxies that are expected to be older than the universe itself.

However, the researchers do not have a definitive explanation for the observed pattern of galaxy rotation. They discuss a few options that would predict a preferred direction of rotation, but these are considered a little out there. The study's findings are intriguing but require many more observations to confirm or refute them.

The team found a significant difference between the rotations of these galaxies relative to the Milky Way. If the Doppler shift effect is causing galaxies rotating opposite to the Milky Way to appear brighter, it could explain why these galaxies are overrepresented as we look back further into the red-shifted universe.

The possibility of the universe being on the interior of a black hole of a larger universe is suggested by the researchers. This idea, known as black hole cosmology, postulates that the entire universe is the interior of a black hole. If this is true, it would have profound implications for our understanding of the cosmos.

An earlier version of this article was first published in March 2025. The team's paper discusses the implications of their findings and the challenges that lie ahead in confirming or refuting their hypothesis. The search for answers continues, but one thing is certain: this discovery has opened a new chapter in our understanding of the cosmos.