Physicist Carlo Rovelli says people should look for white holes, which are the opposite of black holes. “A white hole is a hole in the air from which things can come out, but nothing can go in,” explains physicist Carlo Rovelli, who has urged scientists to look for it. dailystar.co.uk.
A black hole is a mysterious cavity in space into which matter enters but cannot leave. However, Carlo Rovelli, 67, of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada, claims that a white hole is the opposite of this phenomenon. Matter can leave the white hole, but nothing can access its interior.
Rovelli suggests that white holes are formed by the collapse of black holes – the remains of dying stars. Under the influence of their own mass, they are compressed in such a way that a quantum leap occurs and they transform into a new entity.
“A black hole is a hole in the sky where things can get in but can’t get out,” Carlo said. “A white hole is a hole in the sky from which things can come out, but nothing can go in.”
According to Carlo’s theory, a black hole that has turned into a white one weakly emits everything it has sucked in. From the outside it is small – the mass of a hair and invisible to the naked eye.
But inside it warps the fields of space and time like a real Tardis, as it continually glides through the universe.
“Every year about one passes through your room,” the scientist adds. He believes this astonishing phenomenon could hold the key to another physical mystery: the origin of dark matter.
“This dark matter could perhaps be made up in part of billions and billions of these tiny, delicate white holes that reverse the time of black holes and float lightly through the universe, like dragonflies,” he said.
“There are a few groups that are already thinking about how to detect these things, how to make a machine that clicks as you fly by.
“It’s difficult. But I don’t think it’s impossible. These developments are happening at an incredibly fast pace. I’m hopeful that before I die someone will be able to claim to have discovered these things.
