Black Hole White Hole in $\Lambda$CDM Cosmology

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The discussion centers on the paper "More on McVittie's Legacy: A Schwarzschild - de Sitter black and white hole embedded in an asymptotically $\Lambda$CDM cosmology" by Kayll Lake and Majd Abdelqader. The authors support the findings of Kaloper, Kleban, and Martin, asserting that the McVittie solution includes a black hole within an expanding universe. They detail a specific solution that approaches $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, demonstrating that both black and white hole horizons form part of the McVittie solution's boundary. The study confirms that the null and weak energy conditions are satisfied, and presents a systematic construction of a conformal diagram through numerical integrations of null geodesic equations.

PREREQUISITES
  • Understanding of General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
  • Familiarity with Schwarzschild - de Sitter spacetime
  • Knowledge of cosmological models, particularly $\Lambda$CDM
  • Experience with numerical integration techniques in theoretical physics
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  • Study the McVittie solution in detail
  • Explore the implications of the Schwarzschild - de Sitter black and white hole horizons
  • Investigate the null geodesic equations and their numerical integration
  • Learn about the energy conditions in general relativity
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Researchers in cosmology, theoretical physicists, and graduate students studying general relativity and black hole physics will benefit from this discussion.

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I came by this in Arxiv, i don't understand it all so i thought i would just flag it.


arXiv:1106.3666 (cross-list from gr-qc) [pdf, ps, other]
More on McVittie's Legacy: A Schwarzschild - de Sitter black and white hole embedded in an asymptotically $\Lambda$CDM cosmology
Kayll Lake, Majd Abdelqader
Comments: 21 pages 17 figures revtex4-1
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

Recently Kaloper, Kleban and Martin reexamined the McVittie solution and argued, contrary to a very widely held belief, that the solution contains a black hole in an expanding universe. Here we corroborate their main conclusion but go on to examine, in some detail, a specific solution that asymptotes to the $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We show that part of the boundary of the solution contains the inner bifurcation two - sphere of the Schwarzschild - de Sitter spacetime and so both the black and white hole horizons together form a partial boundary of this McVittie solution. We go on to show that the null and weak energy conditions are satisfied and that the dominant energy condition is satisfied almost everywhere in the solution. The solution is understood here by way of a systematic construction of a conformal diagram based on detailed numerical integrations of the null geodesic equations. We find that the McVittie solution admits a degenerate limit in which the bifurcation two - sphere disappears. For solutions with zero cosmological constant, we find no evidence for the development of a weak null singularity. Rather, we find that in this case there is either a black hole to the future of an initial singularity or a white hole to its past.
 
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One event in time that we see as two horizons in space. nice.:smile:
 

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