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The Black Hole and the White Hole
A black hole cannot squeeze things down to infinity. At some point you get to the minimum size, the fall is blocked and it has to stop. When things stop falling, typically they bounce. So whatever is inside now can bounce out. And that's a white hole from the outside. First, we see the horizon where everything comes fall in. Then we see the same horizon, the same position in the sky, the same star. But now, instead of an horizon where everything can only go in, it's an horizon for which everything can only going out. It's extremely plausible to imagine that when a black hole end, that's exactly the quantum sense To a white hole being worn