LMR-125 · Black Holes
White Hole
A black hole in reverse. Nothing can stay inside; everything must leave.
§ A first look
§ Depths
Six ways into the same idea — from bedtime story to chalkboard. No order required.
L1 · Crayon
Told like a bedtime story.
For a curious 10-year-old. No jargon. Just a picture in your head.
A black hole is a place nothing can leave. A white hole would be the exact opposite: a place nothing can enter, where everything in there is constantly forced to come out. Math says it's allowed. Nature has never been seen making one. Some people think the Big Bang itself was, in some sense, the biggest white hole ever — a place where stuff just had to pour out, and it did, and now we have stars.
§ Strange but true
- 01The universe is stranger than your intuition. This is a rule, not an exception.
- 02Every fact in physics was once an outrageous guess. Most still feel like one.
- 03If it doesn't bend your brain a little, you haven't read it carefully enough.
§ From the field journal
White Hole
"A black hole in reverse. Nothing can stay inside; everything must leave."
— observed, sketched, not yet fully understood.
§ Nearby