Science: White Holes Flip The Script On Physics [by @darrylzero]

May 28, 2011 by Hannibal Tabu Leave a Comment

As if the universe wasn't complicated enough, scientists now have found possible evidence of "Anti-Black" or "white" holes, which push matter into our universe instead of swallowing it up and crushing it into nothingness. Officials cite a 2006 gamma ray burst that seemed to appear from nowhere (gamma ray bursts normally occur when a star goes supernova, or when a timid scientist needs an outlet for his repressed anger).

In addition to being incredibly hard to trace, these heretofore-theoretical celestial matter-fountains can be extremely powerful:

[T]heir spontaneous creation of matter is analogous to the Big Bang, to the point where they're also being referred to as "Small Bangs." They wouldn't have any fixed spacetime coordinates and wouldn't be detectable at all, but they could instantly appear literally anywhere, anytime and do their thing before collapsing again.

Let's hope these white holes aren't as scary as their black counterparts.

[Sources: DVICE and io9.]

A. Darryl Moton is a high school debate coach, preschool bus driver, strip-club DJ, karaoke host, Black Iowan, occasional writer, and numerous other things that would make you doubt his sanity.

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Born in Rockford, Illinois; raised in Memphis, Tennessee; matriculated in
Tacoma, Washington and broadcasting live from Los Angeles, Hannibal Tabu is
a writer, a brother, a husband, a misanthrope, a son, an emcee, an uncle, a
poet, a father, a designer, a nephew, a romantic, a storyteller, and by
god, a fan. He spent more than ten years doing the journalist thing for
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California Bank & Trust and many more. As a poet, Hannibal has been
published in The Drumming Between Us, (sic) Vice Verse, Drumvoices Review,
Voices From Leimert Park and other anthologies, as well as being author of
the collection BORN BENEATH AN ANGRY STAR and co-author of FLIGHT MANUAL.
As a novelist, he's written THE CROWN: ASCENSION and FARAWAY (both
available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Smashwords) and the upcoming sci fi
political thriller ROGUE NATION. He's the winner of the 2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt, writer of Waso: Will To Power for Stranger Comics, Project: Wildfire for Legends Press, and co-writer of an issue of Watson & Holmes (alongside 2 Guns writer Steven Grant) for New Paradigm Studios. For six years he was the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Herald-Dispatch group of newspapers, is currently the co-owner and editor-in-chief of Black geek website Komplicated at the Good
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publish his poetry, market what he's doing, rant at the world and emit
strangled cries for help. In addition to all that, Hannibal collects comic
books, has scores of action figures, DJs private parties, is a Mac OS
zealot, sings and sometimes even hosts karaoke, practices a form of
spirituality based on ancient Egyptian belief, and goes to bed every day,
secretly hoping that half the world will commit suicide in his honor.