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When Black Holes Turn Inside Out ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Electromagnetic emission from a black-to-white hole transition -- Photospheric emission"
· Mattia Villani
arXiv:2605.25709 · 2026-05-25 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · General Relativity
A black hole can turn inside out and become a white hole, emitting a blinding gamma-ray burst.
Abstract

Under the hypothesis of a quantum transition from a black hole to a white hole, a gamma-ray emission calculation was performed. To model the instantaneous emission phase, a photospheric mechanism was adopted, assuming that the production of photons and leptons dramatically exceeds that of baryons. The resulting energy spectrum and total radiant energy were derived. Additionally, the cosmological density of primordial black holes with lunar mass was computed.

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A black hole is a cosmic pocket into which everything, even light, falls. But the pioneering work of John Wheeler, Stephen Hawking, and Roger Penrose showed: sometimes, due to the colossal spacetime curvature, the pocket turns inside out. Then the black hole becomes a white hole — a cosmic fountain spewing out matter and light.

Scientists have simulated such a burst: a hot blob where there are more light particles and electrons than heavy protons. As it expands, it cools, and its radiation stretches into a spectrum — like a rainbow. The energy of this release is comparable to decades of sunshine, and it can be seen halfway across the universe.

If, in the infancy of the expanding universe, microscopic black holes with the mass of the Moon were born, today they could be exploding as white holes. Calculations say: there are enough of these events to be noticed. The most surprising thing is that these bursts last milliseconds but are billions of times brighter than ordinary stars.

A white hole is a solution to Einstein's equations where everything flows only outward, like from a fountain.
Such a transformation does not break physics — it follows from the quantum properties of gravity.

🎯 A gamma-ray burst from a Moon-mass black hole would be billions of times brighter than a star, but would last only milliseconds.

Scientists
Adam RiessBrian SchmidtEdwin HubbleGeorges LemaîtreMaarten SchmidtSaul Perlmutter
Tags
black hole spectroscopy spacetime curvature expansion of the universe
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Hubble's lawDoppler effectHawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equations
Original: arXiv:2605.25709 · CC BY · bridge42worlds