Scientists just found a loophole that could let black holes split in two– www.sciencedaily.com
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Black holes are known for merging when two of them collide, but could the reverse ever happen? Could a single black hole somehow divide into two smaller ones? A new theoretical study suggests that this extraordinary possibility may not be entirely ruled out by physics, although the conditions required would be extreme.
The research, published in Physical Review D under the title “When Black Holes Admit Pair-of-pants Topologies,” examines the physical laws that keep black holes intact and whether certain circumstances could allow them to break apart.
“In our study, we investigate which physical laws normally prevent a black hole from splitting into two. We also investigate if certain circumstances may allow a split to happen,” says Francesco Sannino, co-author of the study and a professor of physics at University of Naples Federico II in Italy and Quantum Field Theory Center at University of Southern Denmark.
The research team also included Giacomo Cacciapaglia, a researcher with the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Énergies, a joint CNRS and Sorbonne Université laboratory in Paris. Additional contributors were Manuel Del Piano and Vania Vellucci, both from the Quantum Field Theory Center at the University of Southern Denmark.
