White Holes: better than brown holes

cosmosscience:

Yep, that’s right, white holes. Not black holes, white! Scientists have come up with a theory of white holes.

5 years ago, GRB 060614 (Also called Ralph) was discovered. Ralph was a gamma-ray burst but not your average one. As you might know, Gamma-ray bursts are known to be the most powerful explosions in the Universe. They are usually caused by either long bursts (caused by the sudden release of energy from a collapsing star) or short bursts (caused when two neutron stars collide). 

Picture above: GRB 060614. A gamma-ray burst that was detected by NASA’s Swift Satellite in 2006. This originated in a galaxy that is 1.6 billion light years away.

Ralph’s gamma ray burst lasted for 102 seconds, which is a long burst type of Gamma-ray. The strange thing is, there are no supernovae recorded anywhere in Ralph’s vicinity. This was something completely unexpected and new, which made it wonderful but baffling. Now, 5 years later, this is a theory!

Now, five years later, a theory has emerged: it could be a white hole. So what is a white whole? 

Well, “White Holes” only exist in theory so far. White holes are like black holes in reverse. Where as with black holes nothing can escape, then a white hole is an object where nothing can enter (it can only radiate energy and matter). 

So how do these “White Holes” form? (Zoom on picture here: http://www.cosmonline.co.uk/how-white-holes-might-be-created)

Sources:

http://www.cosmonline.co.uk/blog/2011/06/05/glimpse-almost-impossible

So here we have it, White Holes, what do YOU think about them?

Note: I’ve mentioned a lot that White Holes are this and that, this is only in theory, we don’t know this to be true yet!