Unlike a black hole, a white hole will allow light and matter to leave, but light and matter will not be able to enter.
Scientists have continued to explore the potential connection between black and white holes. Haggard claimed that "there is a classic metric satisfying the Einstein equations outside a finite space-time region where matter collapses into a black hole and then emerges from a while hole.
Far from destroying the information that it absorbs, the collapse of a black hole would be halted. It would instead experience a quantum bounce, allowing information to escape. Should this be the case, it would shed some light on a proposal by former Cambridge University cosmologist and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking who, in the s, explored the possibility that black holes emit particles and radiation — thermal heat — as a result of quantum fluctuations.
Hawking calculated that the radiation would cause a black hole to lose energy, shrink and disappear, as described in his paper published in Physical Review D. Given his claims that the radiation emitted would be random and contain no information about what had fallen in, the black hole, upon its explosion, would erase loads of information.
This meant Hawking's idea was at odds with quantum theory, which says information can't be destroyed. Physics states information just becomes more difficult to find because, should it become lost, it becomes impossible to know the past or the future.
Hawking's idea led to the 'black hole information paradox' and it has long puzzled scientists. Some have said Hawking was simply wrong, and the man himself even declared he had made an error during a scientific conference in Dublin in So, do we go back to the concept of black holes emitting preserved information and throwing it back out via a white hole? In their study published in Physical Review Letters , Jorge Pullin at Louisiana State University and Rodolfo Gambini at the University of the Republic in Montevideo, Uruguay, applied loop quantum gravity to a black hole and found that gravity increased towards the core but reduced and plonked whatever was entering into another region of the universe.
The results gave extra credence to the idea of black holes serving as a portal. In this study, singularity does not exist, and so it doesn't form an impenetrable barrier that ends up crushing whatever it encounters. It also means that information doesn't disappear. The first does not rotate, is electrically neutral — that is, not positively or negatively charged — and has the mass of our Sun.
The second type is a supermassive black hole, with a mass of millions to even billions times greater than that of our Sun.
The event horizon of a black hole is the point of no return. Anything that passes this point will be swallowed by the black hole and forever vanish from our known universe. For a black hole with a mass of our Sun one solar mass , the event horizon will have a radius of just under 2 miles.
The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, by contrast, has a mass of roughly 4 million solar masses, and it has an event horizon with a radius of 7. The person would experience spaghettification, and most likely not survive being stretched into a long, thin noodlelike shape. Now, a person falling into a supermassive black hole would reach the event horizon much farther from the the central source of gravitational pull, which means that the difference in gravitational pull between head and toe is nearly zero.
Other considerations Most black holes that we observe in the universe are surrounded by very hot disks of material, mostly comprising gas and dust or other objects like stars and planets that got too close to the horizon and fell into the black hole. These disks are called accretion disks and are very hot and turbulent.
They are most certainly not hospitable and would make traveling into the black hole extremely dangerous. To enter one safely, you would need to find a supermassive black hole that is completely isolated and not feeding on surrounding material, gas and or even stars.
Keeping in mind that nothing can escape the gravitational pull beyond the event horizon, the in-falling person would not be able to send any information about their findings back out beyond this horizon. Their journey and findings would be lost to the rest of the entire universe for all time. But they would enjoy the adventure, for as long as they survived … maybe ….
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Learn about the Moon in a great new book New book chronicles the space program. Dave's Universe Year of Pluto. Groups Why Join? Astronomy Day. The singularity is an end to space and time, an end to existence. Death by singularity is the paramount existential death — the death of your fundamental particles, the removal from reality of you and your constituent stuff. Actual nonexistence. Singularities, as they involve malefic infinities, deserve to be treated with great suspicion.
They are such an anathema to the entire paradigm of the scientific pursuit of reality that essentially all physicists suspect general relativity ceases to be the complete physical description of gravity at such dramatic scales, the singular core a false prophecy. Rephrased: the mathematics is telling us that the physical description offered by relativity is broken there. General relativity cannot be the whole story precisely because it predicts the singularity.
The alternative to abandoning faith in relativity is much worse: the existence of singularities would mean the physical Universe is deeply and pathologically misbehaved. Maybe in the black hole abyss, instead of a singularity there is some kind of leftover from all that infalling material, a quantum remnant at the catastrophically high energies and curvatures of the very centre of the hole. There could be a whole other Universe inside that hole.
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