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Black Hole Without a Dangerous Center ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Regular black hole with sub-Planckian curvature and suppressed exponential mass inflation"
arXiv:2605.15576 · 2026-05-15 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · General Relativity
Scientists have built a black hole model where instead of a dangerous core there is calm emptiness.
Abstract

The authors built a model of a regular black hole with a flat core and an inner horizon, where gravity doesn't grow infinitely. The spacetime curvature stays below the Planck limit (where laws break down) even for supermassive holes, if the inner horizon radius is chosen appropriately. Instead of an explosive mass growth inside, it transitions to a calm power-law regime — like a shock absorber. This prevents instability and makes the black hole a physically meaningful object.

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Usually, a black hole is an abyss with a point-like dip at the center, where density is infinite and everything breaks down. Einstein and Schwarzschild described such a scenario. But infinity is a sign that the theory stumbled. The new model suggests that a black hole is like a whirlpool with a safe bottom: the funnel suddenly becomes mirror-smooth. You fall in—and instead of being torn apart, you gently settle into calm emptiness. This is achieved by a special inner boundary where gravity disappears. It keeps spacetime curvature at an acceptable level. The smaller this boundary, the smoother the transition. The inner mass doesn’t explode to infinity but freezes at a finite value—this is the key to understanding the quantum essence of black holes and uniting gravity with the micro-world. A surprising twist: the curvature inside barely depends on the hole’s total mass. A giant can be as gentle inside as a tiny one.

🎯 Thanks to the vanishing gravity at the inner boundary, a falling observer doesn’t turn into plasma at the horizon—the 'firewall' problem is bypassed.

🎬 In the movie 'Interstellar,' the characters fly through a black hole—perhaps a regular model like this makes it a bit less fantastical.

Scientists
Stephen HawkingJacob BekensteinAlbert EinsteinFritz ZwickyVera RubinBernhard Riemann
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black hole spacetime curvature entropy
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second law of thermodynamicsHawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equationsBoltzmann distribution
Original: arXiv:2605.15576 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds