Is There Evidence for the Existence of an Anti Black Hole?

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The discussion revolves around the concept of an "anti black hole," exploring whether there is any evidence or theoretical basis for such a phenomenon that would exhibit anti-gravity properties, as opposed to the gravitational pull of a black hole. Participants consider various ideas related to this concept, including the nature of light, negative mass, and white holes.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant questions the existence of an "anti black hole," suggesting it could be a phenomenon that repels everything, including light, potentially appearing as a bright light.
  • Another participant proposes the idea of "phantom energy" as a possible related concept.
  • There is mention of light traveling "backwards," with a participant expressing confusion about this claim and another providing a technical explanation involving dispersive fiber optics.
  • Discussion of "white holes" is introduced, with one participant suggesting that a white hole could emit or disperse "stuff" and proposing three possibilities for how this could occur.
  • Another participant clarifies that white holes do not exhibit anti-gravity but are time-reverses of black holes, emphasizing that they would still attract matter.
  • The concept of negative mass is brought up, with references to theoretical implications and challenges associated with it, including the idea that negative mass would require infinite energy to reach a certain point.
  • Concerns about the thermodynamic implications of negative mass are raised, suggesting that particles with negative mass could gain negative energy from their surroundings.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a variety of views on the existence and nature of anti black holes, white holes, and negative mass. There is no consensus on these concepts, and multiple competing ideas are presented without resolution.

Contextual Notes

Participants reference theoretical literature and concepts, such as Hermann Bondi's work on negative mass and the Schwarzschild metric, but acknowledge the speculative nature of these discussions. Some ideas presented may depend on specific definitions or assumptions that are not universally accepted.

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"anti" black hole

hey,
is there evedince that leads to the idea that there is a "formation" of an anti-black-hole. i don't know how to explain it because it has no name. anyways, what if there was a star or some phenominon that insted of having "stupendious" gravity (black hole) had stupendis anti-gravity. it repells everything. including light. now, if it repells light, you might see it as a very bright light. mebe mistaking it for a star. i don't know. i may be totally wrong. that's why I am posting this. :confused:
this is described in the diagram that i drew below...
 

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taylaron said:
hey,
is there evedince that leads to the idea that there is a "formation" of an anti-black-hole. i don't know how to explain it because it has no name. anyways, what if there was a star or some phenominon that insted of having "stupendious" gravity (black hole) had stupendis anti-gravity. it repells everything. including light. now, if it repells light, you might see it as a very bright light. mebe mistaking it for a star. i don't know. i may be totally wrong. that's why I am posting this. :confused:
this is described in the diagram that i drew below...

Perhaps you are talking about so-called "phantom energy"?
 
i also heard that you can get light to travel "backwards" which apparently is faster

HUH?
 
taylaron said:
i also heard that you can get light to travel "backwards" which apparently is faster

HUH?
What you're likely referring to has nothing to do with cosmology, and is barely interesting at all. One method uses dispersive fibre optics (doped with erbium I think). You can construct media that will amplify the first front part of an extended light pulse (same as a laser gain medium) but only scatter the rest of the pulse. Thus, the peak of the emerging signal occurs before the peak of the initial pulse would have arrived. No signal arrives any earlier than you could theoretically have detected it in the first place.
 
Try looking for topics on "White Holes".
 
taylaron said:
hey,
is there evedince that leads to the idea that there is a "formation" of an anti-black-hole. i don't know how to explain it because it has no name. anyways, what if there was a star or some phenominon that insted of having "stupendious" gravity (black hole) had stupendis anti-gravity. it repells everything. including light. now, if it repells light, you might see it as a very bright light. mebe mistaking it for a star. i don't know. i may be totally wrong. that's why I am posting this. :confused:
this is described in the diagram that i drew below...

There isn't any evidence that such a thing exists, but the idea (or a similar one) has been talked about before in physics literature, for instance Hermann Bondi, "Negative Mass in General Relativity", Reviews of Modern Physics 29, 423 (1957).

One can replace the mass M in the Schwarzschild metric with a negative number, and find that an object with negative mass gravitationally repels nearby objects, and that objects nearer the negative-mass black hole age faster rather than slower.

It's worth noting that such an object doesn't have an event horizon, so it's not really a black hole.

The Bondi article may be hard to get a hold of (I don't have a copy myself) - there is a reasonably good popular discussion in http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw14.html however.
 
pervect said:
It's worth noting that such an object doesn't have an event horizon, so it's not really a black hole.
Yes but instead it has a barrier, nothing can enter it from the outside, not even light. :smile:
 
MeJennifer said:
Yes but instead it has a barrier, nothing can enter it from the outside, not even light. :smile:

If one posutlates a point negative gravitational mass, an effective potential analysis (such as the one at http://www.fourmilab.ch/gravitation/orbits/)
shows that it would require infinite energy to reach r=0. One could come as close to the central point mass as desired, but never reach it with a finite "energy at infinity".

But if one postualtes a distributed, rather than a point, mass, this issue goes away. A distributed negative gravitational mass would have a metric that was well-behavied everywhere, and one could reach the center of it without any special problems.

So there wouldn't be any event horizon, nor would there be any singularity, or any difficulty reaching r=0, with a finite negative mass of nonzero volume.

Negative mass has a lot of other problems though. Thermodynamically, for instance, it's a real mess. One would expect particles with negative mass to gain negative energy from their surroundings, for instance, heating up the surroundings while the negative mass particles gain "negative energy".
 
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taylaron said:
hey,
is there evedince that leads to the idea that there is a "formation" of an anti-black-hole. i don't know how to explain it because it has no name. anyways, what if there was a star or some phenominon that insted of having "stupendious" gravity (black hole) had stupendis anti-gravity. it repells everything. including light. now, if it repells light, you might see it as a very bright light. mebe mistaking it for a star. i don't know. i may be totally wrong. that's why I am posting this. :confused:
this is described in the diagram that i drew below...

Here's a thought:
For a 'white hole' to display 'anti-gravity' properties to emit/disperse 'stuff', it has to have received 'stuff' from somewhere.

I came up with 3 possibilities:

1. A 'black hole' changes to 'white hole' after reaching it's 'threshold of attraction/gravity' (whereby nothing can escape it's gravitational pull).

2. An existence of a 'parallel universe' in which exists a corresponding 'black hole' which supplies the 'white hole' with 'stuff'.

3. A 'white hole' attracts 'anti-matter' and repels 'matter' (converts anti-matter to matter). (Opposite to a 'black hole' attracting 'matter').


Cheers,
 
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ronnie2177 said:
Here's a thought:
For a 'white hole' to display 'anti-gravity' properties to emit/disperse 'stuff', it has to have received 'stuff' from somewhere.
White holes wouldn't have anti-gravity, you'd fall towards them just like black holes, it's just that nothing could ever reach the horizon from the outside. White holes are just the time-reverse of black holes, so just as anything falling through the event horizon of a black hole must hit the singularity at the center, anything that comes out of the event horizon of a white hole must have been emitted by the white hole singularity.

Incidentally, it's better to start a new thread rather than revive one that no one's posted on for years!
 

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