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Could some black holes have evolved from wormholes?

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-05-03 v6

Abstract

One way to explain the present acceleration of the Universe is Einstein's cosmological constant. It is quite likely, in view of some recent studies, that a time-dependent equation of state had caused the Universe to evolve from an earlier phantom-energy model. In that case traversable wormholes could have formed spontaneously. It is shown in this paper that such wormholes would eventually have become black holes. This would provide a possible explanation for the huge number of black holes discovered, while any evidence for the existence of wormholes is entirely lacking, even though wormholes are just as good, in terms of being a prediction of general relativity, as black holes.

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@article{arxiv.0812.4712,
  title  = {Could some black holes have evolved from wormholes?},
  author = {Peter K. F. Kuhfittig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.4712},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure, updated version to incorporate recent findings

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