2000/03/20 by F. J. Tipler, Frank J. Tipler, Jessica Graber +7 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Event horizon #Extremal black hole #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Nonsingular black hole models #Omega #Quintessence #Scalar field #Singularity #Spacetime #White hole #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11895.x
published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.379:629-640,2007 · 27 pages in LaTex2e, no figures
arxiv created 2000/03/20 · openalex publication_date 2007/07/17 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We show it is possible for the information paradox in black hole evaporation to be resolved classically. Using standard junction conditions, we attach the general closed spherically symmetric dust metric to a spacetime satisfying all standard energy conditions but with a single point future c-boundary. The resulting Omega Point spacetime, which has NO event horizons, nevertheless has black hole type trapped surfaces and hence black holes. But since there are no event horizons, information eventually escapes from the black holes. We show that a scalar quintessence field with an appropriate exponential potential near the final singularity would give rise to an Omega Point final singularity.