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New maps of the chaotic space-time inside black holes
Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.
Clockwise from top: Photograph by Robert P. Matthews, Joseph Henry Laboratories, courtesy of AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Physics Today Collection; Melirius via Flickr; Litbook.ru If decoupling takes place, they showed that the inside of a black hole is a mishmash — rather unlike the smooth stretching of space and time that Schwarzschild’s earlier solution suggested. “That may make it easier to formulate a quantum theory of gravity.” Even if the event horizon prevents us from directly observing the chaos inside black holes, knowing it is there and what it means could point the way to a new physics, and toward answers to some of our grandest questions about reality itself.
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