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    Christopher Laforet

    The Schwarzschild metric encompasses both exterior and interior regions, with a reversal of signature upon transition from one to the other. Inside the Black Hole, the radial spacelike coordinate transforms into a timelike radius, introducing a time-dependent scale factor on …

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    The Schwarzschild metric encompasses both exterior and interior regions, with a reversal of signature upon transition from one to the other. Inside the Black Hole, the radial spacelike coordinate transforms into a timelike radius, introducing a time-dependent scale factor on the interior metric's angular term. We investigate situating a Black Hole within another, yielding a spherically symmetric vacuum described by the Schwarzschild metric. As the interior metric's angular term contracts towards the center, the inner Black Hole's surface and gravitational field collapse to a point, ultimately vanishing at the singularity. Homogeneously distributing multiple Black Holes inside the shell allows the interior metric's spacelike $t$ coordinate to characterize the expanding space between them and their gravitational fields. Moreover, we propose a cosmological model wherein the intersection of a Universe and Antiverse spawns FRW Universes, transitioning into Schwarzschild Universes as matter aggregates. This mirrors the Black Hole within a Black Hole scenario, with the FRW Universe acting as the shell's surface. Our model is shown to reconcile with cosmological data, explaining the Universe's Dark Energy without a cosmological constant.

    Francesco Pannarale
    Dimitrios Psaltis, Colm Talbot, Ethan Payne, Ilya Mandel
    Jacques Ninet
    E. S. Phinney
    Jeremy Dunning-Davies
    Duarte Feiteira, José P. S. Lemos, Oleg B. Zaslavskii
    Xuanhua Wang

    Black holes, as described within the framework of effective field theory, radiate particles in thermal spectra, with temperatures proportional to the surface gravities on the event horizons. If a black hole forms from collapsing matter in a pure state, Hawking’s …

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    Black holes, as described within the framework of effective field theory, radiate particles in thermal spectra, with temperatures proportional to the surface gravities on the event horizons. If a black hole forms from collapsing matter in a pure state, Hawking’s calculation suggests that the resulting radiation is in a mixed state by the end of the evaporation process, violating the unitarity of quantum mechanics. This contradiction led to a long-standing puzzle regarding information conservation in black holes. After the discovery of the AdS/CFT correspondence, it became more accepted that black hole dynamics should be unitary, even though concrete calculations were still lacking. Recent breakthroughs, particularly computations of radiation entropy using quantum extremal surfaces, have successfully demonstrated the conservation of von Neumann entropy during black hole evaporation, while quantum information theory has enabled the development of protocols for decoding information from Hawking radiation. However, challenges persist in understanding the precise mechanisms by which information from infalling matter becomes encoded in radiation and how external observers might retrieve it. Nevertheless, recent advances suggest these questions are becoming increasingly tractable, offering valuable insights into the conditions and processes that enable information recovery from black hole radiation.