Growing a Kerr Black Hole

Leon F. Phillips^*

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

DOI: 10.4236/jmp.2015.613181                

Abstract

Growth of a black hole requires the participation of a near-by accretion disk if it is to occur at a significant rate. The Kerr solution of Einstein’s equation is a vacuum solution, but the center of a realistic Kerr black hole is not a vacuum, so the predicted disk singularity does not exist. Instead, the center of a black hole is occupied by an ultra-dense, spheroidal core whose diameter is greater than that of the theoretical disk singularity. The surface of a black hole’s core is continually bombarded by energetic particles from the external universe. Hence the cold remnant of a gravitationally-collapsed star that has often been assumed to be present at the center of a black hole must be replaced conceptually by a quark-gluon plasma whose temperature is of the order of 10¹² K or more. The gravitational potential well of a black hole is extremely deep (TeV), but the number of discrete energy levels below the infinite-red-shift surface is finite. Information can be conveyed to observers in the external universe by thermally-excited fermions that escape from levels near the top of a black hole potential well.

Keywords

Kerr Black Hole, No Singularity, Ultra-Dense Core, Deep (Teravolts) Potential Well, High-Energy Incoming Particles, Quark-Gluon Plasma, Information Flow through Event Horizon

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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