Wednesday, 21 September 2011

What would happen if a Black Hole and White Hole Collided?

From Wikipedia:




In quantum mechanics, the black hole emits Hawking radiation and so can come to thermal equilibrium with a gas of radiation. Because a thermal-equilibrium state is time-reversal-invariant, Stephen Hawking argued that the time reverse of a black hole in thermal equilibrium is again a black hole in thermal equilibrium. This implies that black holes and white holes are the same object




The excerpt above was an argument made by Stephen Hawking, explaining that a white hole and a black hole are essentially the same object. With this in mind, we can assume that the collision will be between two black holes. The result will then be the radius of the black hole added to the radius of the white hole.

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