White Holes mistaken for Quasars??

Question

Could a quasar be a white hole?

If a black hole pulls in everything including light, while breaking down time as you speed up through the accretion disk till you reach the event horizon, could a white hole be pushing out similar matter and thanks to time dilation as the light escapes, the luminosity would seem amplified tremendously.

I guess this is just speculation, but I wonder if there is any research into the mathematical similarities of quasars and white holes.

Answer 1

Hi Luke E.,

As far as I understand these things, while it is true that Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory does posit the possibility of white holes, particularly in conjunction with black hole partners, there are some constraints to consider within more general cosmological consideration. Even with that theory, the conditions are peculiar (requiring "bounce" from a black hole), and if they obtained frequently we might expect to see large numbers of white holes. While we do see substantial numbers of quasars (~200,000 in entire universe), these are interpretable as jets from accretion disks of supermassive black holes. Given 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe, generally with supermassive black holes at their centers, that's not an excessive number to be viewing end-on, so to speak.

Primordial white holes are posited in other theories to be hypothetically formed only in the "initial condition "= metric (not related to the metric system!) of setup of the universe. Black holes that formed subsequently, from collapse of matter over time, or from local mass concentrations after inflation, don't qualify as white hole co-generators. As far as we can tell, collapsed matter is always segregated, and although mass-energy leaks out subsequently over time scales vast with respect to the age of the universe(!), that's de nada in the present, certainly not the reverse of a black hole.

The consideration of the Big Bang as a some sort of a white hole event, really doesn't advance understanding at all, I think.

But if you enjoy math, you might want to nibble a little more. Don't head right into cosmology, though; You might work your way through the Feynman Lectures on Physics: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ , first.

-- Cheers, Mr. d.