Nonsingular black hole models

Short description: Models of black holes without gravitational singularities

A nonsingular black hole model is a mathematical theory of black holes that avoids certain theoretical problems with the standard black hole model, including information loss and the unobservable nature of the black hole event horizon.

## Contents

* 1 Avoiding paradoxes in the standard black hole model
* 2 Alternative black hole models
* 2.1 Hayward metric
* 2.2 Ayón-Beato–García metric
* 3 Nonsingular black holes as dark matter
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Avoiding paradoxes in the standard black hole model

For a black hole to physically exist as a solution to Einstein's equation, it must form an event horizon in finite time relative to outside observers. This requires an accurate theory of black hole formation, of which several have been proposed. In 2007, Shuan Nan Zhang of Tsinghua University proposed a model in which the event horizon of a potential black hole only forms (or expands) after an object falls into the existing horizon, or after the horizon has exceeded the critical density. In other words, an infalling object causes the horizon of a black hole to expand, which only occurs after the object has fallen into the hole, allowing an observable horizon in finite time.[1][2]

## Alternative black hole models

Nonsingular black hole models have been proposed since theoretical problems with black holes were first realized.[3] Today some of the most viable candidates for the result of the collapse of a star with mass well above the Chandrasekhar limit include the gravastar and the dark energy star.

While black holes were a well-established part of mainstream physics for most of the end of the 20th century, alternative models received new attention when models proposed by George Chapline and later by Lawrence Krauss, Dejan Stojkovic, and Tanmay Vachaspati of Case Western Reserve University showed in several separate models that black hole horizons could not form.[4][5]

Such research has attracted much media attention,[6] as black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the public for both their innate simplicity and mysteriousness. The recent theoretical results have therefore undergone much scrutiny and most of them are now ruled out by theoretical studies. For example, several alternative black hole models were shown to be unstable in extremely fast rotation,[7] which, by conservation of angular momentum, would be a not unusual physical scenario for a collapsed star (see pulsar). Nevertheless, the existence of a stable model of a nonsingular black hole is still an open question.

### Hayward metric

The Hayward metric is the simplest description of a black hole that is non-singular. The metric was written down by Sean Hayward as the minimal model that is regular, static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically flat.[8]

### Ayón-Beato–García metric

The Ayón-Beato–García model is the first exact charged regular black hole with a source.[9] The model was proposed by Eloy Ayón Beato and Alberto García in 1998 based on the minimal coupling between a nonlinear electrodynamics model and general relativity, considering a static and spherically symmetric spacetime. Later the same authors reinterpreted the first non-singular black hole geometry, the Bardeen toy Model,[10] as a nonlinear-electrodynamics-based regular black hole.[11] Nowadays, it is known that the Ayón-Beato–García model may mimic the absorption properties of the Reissner–Nordström metric, from the perspective of the absorption of massless test scalar fields.[12]

## Nonsingular black holes as dark matter

In 2024, Paul C.W. Davies, Damien A. Easson, and Phillip B. Levin proposed that nonsingular black holes are a viable candidate for dark matter.[13] They showed that the nonsingular Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole slowly evaporates, reaching a maximum but finite temperature, then forms a black hole remnant that does not have a singularity and whose mass is on the order of the Planck mass. This nonsingular black hole can comprise all of the dark matter in the observable universe because the fraction of primordial black holes that is dark matter is inversely proportional to the smallest mass primordial black hole that could have survived since the primordial era. It was previously thought that Hawking evaporation set the lower bound of primordial black holes to be 1012 kg, but nonsingular black holes, which form remnants and do not evaporate completely, lower this bound to the Planck mass, which is 10−8 kg. Thus Planck mass nonsingular black holes formed primordially can comprise all of the dark matter in the observable universe today.

## See also

* Exotic star
* Planck star
* Fuzzball (string theory)

## References

1. ↑ Zhang, Shuang Nan; Tang, Sumin (2007-07-06). "Witnessing matter falling into a black hole by a distant observer". Tsinghua University. http://www.cfa.ustc.edu.cn/meeting/aco/papers/5-7morning/Witnessing matter falling into a black hole-1.ppt.
2. ↑ Zhang, Shuang Nan; Liu, Yuan (2008). "Observe matter falling into a black hole". AIP Conf. Proc. 968: 384–391. doi:10.1063/1.2840436. Bibcode: 2008AIPC..968..384Z.
3. ↑ Bardeen, JM (1968). "Non-singular general relativistic gravitational collapse". In Proceedings of the International Conference GR5, Tbilisi, USSR 174: 87. Bibcode: 1968qtr..conf...87B.
4. ↑ Chapline, George (July 1998). "The Black Hole Information Puzzle and Evidence for a Cosmological Constant". arXiv:hep-th/9807175.
5. ↑ Vachaspati, Tanmay; Dejan Stojkovic; Lawrence M. Krauss (June 2007). "Observation of Incipient Black Holes and the Information Loss Problem". Phys. Rev. D 76 (2). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.76.024005. Bibcode: 2007PhRvD..76b4005V.
6. ↑ Rockets, Rusty (2007-06-22). "Rethinking Black Holes". Science A Gogo. http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/black_hole_redux.shtml.
7. ↑ Cardoso, Vitor; Paolo Pani; Mariano Cadoni; Marco Cavaglia (2008). "Ergoregion instability rules out black hole doubles". Phys. Rev. D 77 (12). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.124044. Bibcode: 2008PhRvD..77l4044C.
8. ↑ Hayward, Sean A. (26 January 2006). "Formation and evaporation of non-singular black holes". Physical Review Letters 96 (3). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.031103. PMID 16486679. Bibcode: 2006PhRvL..96c1103H.
9. ↑ Ayón-Beato, Eloy; García, Alberto (8 June 1998). "Regular Black Hole in General Relativity Coupled to Nonlinear Electrodynamics". Physical Review Letters 80 (23): 5056–5059. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.5056. PMID 16486679. Bibcode: 1998PhRvL..80.5056A.
10. ↑ Bardeen, JM (1968). "Non-singular general relativistic gravitational collapse". In Proceedings of the International Conference GR5, Tbilisi, USSR 174: 87. Bibcode: 1968qtr..conf...87B.
11. ↑ Ayón-Beato, Eloy; García, Alberto (9 November 2000). "The Bardeen model as a nonlinear magnetic monopole". Physical Review B 493 (1–2): 149–152. doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(00)01125-4. Bibcode: 2000PhLB..493..149A.
12. ↑ Paula, Marco; Leite, Luiz; Crispino, Luís (12 November 2020). "Electrically charged black holes in linear and nonlinear electrodynamics: Geodesic analysis and scalar absorption". Physical Review D 102 (10). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.102.104033. PMID 16486679. Bibcode: 2020PhRvD.102j4033P.
13. ↑ Davies, Paul C.W.; Easson, Damien A.; Levin, Phillip B. (2025). "Nonsingular black holes as dark matter". Physical Review D 111 (10). doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.111.103512. Bibcode: 2025PhRvD.111j3512D.

## External links

* Black holes don't exist, Case physicists report
* George Chapline (1998). "The Black Hole Information Puzzle and Evidence for a Cosmological Constant". arXiv:hep-th/9807175.
* Abhas Mitra (2005). "Comments on the proposal of Dark Energy Stars by Chapline". arXiv:astro-ph/0504384.

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