A New Hypothesis on the Nature of Black Holes

September 30, 2013


New Hypothesis on the Nature of Black Holes

In a newly published study, scientists present a new hypothesis on the nature of black holes, challenging the current “clean” black hole model.



According to Sotiriou, things may not have occurred this way. “Black holes, according to our calculations, may have hair,” explains Sotiriou, referring to a well-known statement by physicist John Wheeler, who claimed that “black holes have no hair.” Wheeler meant that mass and angular momentum are all one needs to describe them.



Publication: Vitor Cardoso, et al., “Black Holes with Surrounding Matter in Scalar-Tensor Theories,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 111101, 2013; doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.111101

PDF Copy of the Study: Black holes with surrounding matter in scalar-tensor theories

Source: International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA)

Image: Alain Riazuelo

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11 Responses to “A New Hypothesis on the Nature of Black Holes”

  1. bull Says:

    what about the very tiny black holes no one ever talks about them such as the eyes pupil. it would be very tiny but does it not have all the same chateristics of a black hole . the point of which energy is transformed sight to thought and so own . I see it do u .


  2. Jim Oss Says:

    No such thing as a non-rotating black hole, eh?


  3. Phil Says:

    ”Rotation of a blackhole” depends on the definition. Are we talking about rotational accretion disk, or a rotation of the event horizon. This needs too be a little more concise, unless I missed abit of the article? Maybe blackholes are monopoles? Nearly every cosmic body has a rotation from particle to star?


  4. Sasha Says:

    Who published this and who wrote this? I am doing a report on black holes and I need to include the publisher/ author in my bibliography or I’ll get an F. Can you please post the author and publisher on this page?


  5. physis Says:

    The star collapses, makes a black hole. There is a beginning of the black hole with a direction away from this point of view. The other end, where does the black hole go to? When it does built a einstein-rosen-bridge does the black hole from our site connects to another black hole from some other site of the universe? Where is this site? Does it has to be a collapsed star as well?


    • rockk Says:

      the black hole is anchored to another white hole in another universe. we live inside a black hole, that s why the universe is “black”\



  6. Madanagopal.V.C Says:

    If a comet can have a hair (coma), Sun can have a hair (solar corona), then there should be no surprise the million times heavier Black Holes can also have hair (coma like), since they are also radiating bodies like Sun. This will put an end to some people calling Black Hole as a dummy singularity in space without any powerful content in them drawing even light not to escape. If Black holes can have accretion discs like our Sun, having asteroid belt and planets, or rings of dusts like our gas giants Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, then coma like out growth of emission materials in Black Holes present no surprise. If they are ‘bald’ then only one would be surprised. Even baldness can be probed and it would be having a few hairs sprouting, with the help of powerful telescopes. Thank You.


  7. Brad Says:

    Looks like a toupee to me!


  8. Michael Says:

    Actually, black holes can have electrical charge, too. It was thought they could be fully described by mass, spin, and charge.


    • rockk Says:

      u mean like a subatomic particle?! was a retoric question. there is 1 model that our universe practices, the small and the big is one , have same structural logic, birth life spam and death cycles, only the circumstances change, not the ideea.

      u blindfolded scientists, wake up!


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