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white hole

noun

  1. pigeonhole.

  2. Astronomy.,  a theoretical celestial object into which matter is funneled from a black hole.



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In the same conversation, Dr. Bardeen described recent ideas he had about what happens as a black hole evaporates, suggesting that it might change into a white hole,

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For that one reason, the sense that there is a huge white hole at the burning center of federal civil rights law seems inescapable today.

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In order for Stojkovic and Dai’s idea to work, any wormhole within Sagittarius A* must lack an event horizon—the boundary beyond which gravity’s inexorable pull allows nothing, not even light, to escape—so it would be different from the Einstein-Rosen bridge idea of a black hole on one side and a white hole on the other.

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A white hole acts like the reverse of a black hole by emitting energy while not allowing anything to enter.

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Heat pours through “the white hole of noon,” and on the Aegean, “darkened yachts look like flies crawling on raw, blue meat.”

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