The art installation ER=EPR by Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand is part of the VU ART SCIENCE gallery's opening exhibition 0 Starting From Zero.
Relativity suggests that a black hole forms after a massive star collapses into a point with zero volume from which nothing, neither matter nor light, can ever escape. ER=EPR envisions coupled black holes as vortex pairs hovering through a long aquarium. Illuminating the vortices from below the body of water, an expanded laser beam creates a ceiling projection of counter rotating black holes connected by a wormhole bridge.
The artwork is a liquid analog of a theory proposed by cosmologists Juan Maldacena and Leonard Susskind. This conjecture asserts that “ER”, an Einstein Rosen bridge or wormhole, is an example of “EPR”, the Einstein Podolosky Rosen paradox, otherwise known as quantum entanglement.