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January 5th, 2008, 10:44 GMT · By Gabriel Gache

What is a White Hole?

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Artistic impression of what would the observer see while passing the event horizon of a Schwartzschild wormhole; on the right, the local universe from which you fall; the black semicircle represents the black hole's shadow
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Surely an entry must have an exit; there is no doubt about that. Black holes swallow huge amounts of matter as they travel through space, but where does all that material go?
One thing is for certain, it can't stay inside it for a indefinite amount of time, otherwise we probably wouldn't be here right now. Therefore, astrophysicists invented the concept of white hole.

Basically, a white hole represents the time reversal of a black hole, meaning that material absorbed by a particular black hole in the past is ejected through the event horizon of a white hole. Don't ask me why they called it a white hole, because it's clearly anything but white. In fact, theoretical models of such objects predict that black holes and white holes cannot be distinguished from one another, as they look mostly the same.

According to the Theory of General Relativity, the acceleration force is invariant under time reversal conditions, thus both the black holes and the white holes have powerful gravitational fields which attract matter, and however they are differentiated by their behavior at the event horizon. While black holes swallow material, white holes eject it. World famous physicist Stephen Hawking, often called the successor of Albert Einstein, argue that if the quantum effects are taken into consideration these seemingly different objects are actually one and the same.

Matter drawn towards the white hole can never cross its event horizon, as the previous recedes from it at local speed of light. Any infilling matter which previously crossed the event horizon is ejected towards infinity after it approached the point-like singularity at an infinitely small distance, as the white hole is being destroyed.

Black holes were first predicted only a few days after Einstein released the Theory of General Relativity by German physicist and astronomer Karl Schwarzschild as a solution to Einstein's field equations, while trying to calculate how massive a object must be before the gravitational acceleration on its surface exceeds the speed of light. Sadly after publishing his work, Schwartzschild died in the First World War while serving in the German Army.

Schwartzschild's solution to Einstein's field equations also predicts the possibility of faster than light travel through Schwartzschild wormholes. Material drawn in by a black hole may travel through a wormhole structure and emerge in another part of the universe through a white hole. Nevertheless, such wormhole has been proven to be extremely unstable, disconnecting between the two massive objects as fast as it forms. Furthermore, the second law of thermodynamic strictly forbids such actions.

Some astronomers even suggested the white holes might be responsible for the Big Bang event, more that 13.7 billion years ago which created the universe. Such types of white holes fed from a higher parent universe would be completely different from the traditional view of a white hole through the fact that it cannot be localized in space and its event horizon would surround a volume equal to that of the visible universe.

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Comment #1 by: Mr. Esham on 03 Feb 2009, 19:13 UTC reply to this comment

i think this is an awesome article!!!!!!
and it is also an interestin topic thanks for putting this on the internet


Comment #2 by: jasmine on 15 Apr 2009, 15:55 UTC reply to this comment

I hole previously went to the planitarium and the person there said a white hole unlike a black hole can take something and it will give the light back when you go to a black hole you can not get out because it does not give light back out of when it was pulled in but a white hole can give light back which is why it is called white hole because it gives light back from when light was pulled in.


Comment #3 by: hombre on 09 Apr 2010, 04:40 UTC reply to this comment

In 1953 in the town of adrian Michigan, my brother and i were playing on a sand dune. We heard a noise like a clunking metalic sound, coming from your upper right. I said to my brother what is that noise? Clearly audiable that both of looked around. This was in the country,and no cars or factorys were present. As we looked up to zero in on the noise, we saw a transparent, type colored, spiral movement in the object, It turned in our direction and srarted comeing toward us. I asked my brother what is was, he 3 years older than i .As we tried to guess what it was , the noise got louder, as it approched. We both agreed it was not a solid object. He got scared and threw a rock up at it .As i watched the rock get sucked up into the object, and never came down. The object slowly faded like mist, like a closing of a window.
my brother never would talk about, said he was afraid to think about those things.

What i saw changed how i saw things in relegion and life. There is more to life, there are portals that people dont want to see
Funney thing we could not see it either untill it moved. no clouds , sunny day. Naturaly people are affraid, they are caught up in aleign god worship, we all grew up with that.
This is real true life story, not fiction or imagination. portal or white hole ??? the answer
may be found in our generation. Thanks for shareing info.

Comment #3.1 by: bittu on 26 Dec 2011, 18:43 GMT

what the source of the sound?what is this?please discuss about this.I want to know what is the matter,that you see


Comment #4 by: tony oloyede on 24 Jul 2010, 16:18 UTC reply to this comment

There exist time portals and anomalies which we are afraid to admit exist because that will disprove popular science and long held views.just like it was done to tesla scientist today are in the business of killing off radical ideas that don't conform to their believes


Comment #5 by: daveman on 18 Sep 2010, 22:13 UTC reply to this comment

I think this is pretty cool because I just got the answer for my research...


Comment #6 by: aman on 05 Oct 2011, 15:32 UTC reply to this comment

your informations are really very very helpful to all the physics students.but please,show the more detailed diagram for making proper imagination in mind.


Comment #7 by: Gaurav on 17 Apr 2012, 11:11 UTC reply to this comment

white hole is another side of black hole ...
when you enter the universe which is just parllel to our universe

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