white hole

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Meaning

(astrophysics) A theoretically possible, but physically highly unlikely, singularity from which matter and energy are able to escape but unable to enter; the antithesis of a black hole.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see white,‎ hole.

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Sakharov called such singularities a collapse and an anticollapse, which are an alternative to the couple black hole and white hole in the wormhole theory. Source: Internet

While a black hole sucks everything in, including light, a white hole releases matter and light. Source: Internet

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