@Hitchslap1 Not taking their side, but people are really threatened by IQ if you mention it. I have scored 134 multiple times, the first test given by a DR when I was 4 or 5.
I really do try to not specifically mention it because you either get a lot of hate or "mines 180" back.
https://t.co/PueOoqHe3Z
TLDR: It's not a singularity; it has a magnetic field behind the event horizon because it has no choice.
That field can couple to the plasma disk field without actually communicating interior information.
I usually say they are just glorified neutron stars hiding in their own gravity lens, but a slight variant is possible; conjecture follows
**Bifurcated Space-time Conjecture for Black Hole Interiors**
*(A Phenomenological Resolution of Singularities and Explanation of Persistent Magnetic Activity)*
### Abstract
We propose a conjecture that resolves the classical singularities of general relativity (GR) in black holes by introducing a **spacetime bifurcation** at extreme curvatures. The exterior spacetime remains described by the standard Kerr metric, while the deep interior hosts a finite-density, rotating, magnetized core protected by extreme gravitational time dilation. Particles and magnetic field lines occupy overlapping spatial coordinates at the core but remain in staggered proper-time slices, preventing Pauli exclusion violations and annihilation. This allows a persistent internal magnetic structure that can be externally activated by infalling matter without violating causality or no-hair constraints for classical parameters. The model naturally explains the observed ~10% jet power efficiency, robustness in sparse accretion states, and rapid jet reactivation in tidal disruption events, while replacing mathematical singularities with a real physical object.
### 1. Motivation from GR Breakdown
General relativity predicts curvature and density infinities at $r=0$. These infinities signal the failure of the classical theory, not physical reality. Quantum gravity is expected to yield a non-singular core. The **Bifurcated Spacetime Conjecture** provides a minimal extension that bridges classical GR with expected quantum-gravity behavior.
### 2. Core Postulates
1. **Spacetime Bifurcation**: At sufficiently high curvature (near a finite core radius $r_{\rm core} \sim$ few Planck lengths), spacetime effectively bifurcates into an **external sector** (distant-observer view) and an **internal core sector**.
2. **External Sector**: Standard Kerr geometry with extreme time dilation. Processes near $r_{\rm core}$ appear frozen in eternal stasis relative to the external universe. The core contributes only total mass $M$ and angular momentum $J$ to the exterior.
3. **Internal Core Sector**: Finite proper time for infalling material. Particles reach the core in finite local time and spatially overlap at $r \approx 0$, but extreme dilation gradients stagger their proper-time slices. This permits spatial overlap without simultaneous occupation of identical quantum states.
4. **Magnetic Topology**: A high-helicity, knotted magnetic structure persists at the core. Field lines twist, knot, form natural bottles, and undergo reconnection. Infalling plasma (disk, stellar debris) provides “corridors” that connect externally to this internal topology.
5. **Horizon as Flow State**: The event horizon is a causal null surface separating sectors, not an impenetrable wall. Frame-dragging and the bifurcation field allow magnetic connections without information propagating outward from already-internal material.
### 3. Effective Field Equations
The Einstein equations are extended with a bifurcation scalar field $\phi(r)$:
$$
G_{\mu\nu} + \Lambda g_{\mu\nu} = \frac{8\pi G}{c^4} \Bigl( T_{\mu\nu}^{\rm ext} + T_{\mu\nu}^{\rm core}(\phi) + T_{\mu\nu}^{\rm mag} \Bigr)
$$
with the phenomenological metric (spherically symmetric form, extendable to Kerr):
$$
ds^2 = -\left(1 - \frac{2GM}{r}\right)\left(1 + \phi(r)\right) dt^2 + \left(1 - \frac{2GM}{r}\right)^{-1} dr^2 + r^2 d\Omega^2
$$
where
$$
\phi(r) \approx \alpha \frac{r_s}{r - r_{\rm core}} \quad \text{for } r \gtrsim r_{\rm core}
$$
($\alpha \ll 1$ is a dimensionless coupling, $r_s = 2GM/c^2$). The magnetic stress-energy includes conserved helicity terms.
### 4. Key Physical Consequences
- **Singularity Resolution**: No infinite density. The core has finite (Planck-scale or slightly above) density, stabilized by dilation-regulated quantum effects and magnetic pressure.
- **Time Stasis vs. Local Dynamics**: From outside, core processes never complete the “next Planck instant.” Locally, infalling material experiences normal physics and joins the rotating magnetized core.
- **Pauli Protection**: Overlapping fermions occupy the same spatial coordinates but staggered proper times, avoiding direct violation.
- **Jet Activation**: Infalling matter (even a single star in a TDE) connects to the internal magnetic topology, extending flux tubes outward. This enables rapid onset of powerful jets with ~10% accretion-to-kinetic efficiency, independent of long-term disk buildup. Works in both dense and sparse accretion regimes.
- **Magnetic Robustness**: Internal knots and reconnection corridors persist due to helicity conservation and dilation protection, explaining polar jets and ionizing barriers even around “dormant” black holes.
### 5. Observational Consistency
- Matches Cygnus X-1 hard-state jets and the ~10% efficiency anchor.
- Explains sudden relativistic jets in jetted TDEs without requiring decades of slow flux accumulation.
- Consistent with EHT observations of ordered magnetic fields near horizons (external manifestation of internal topology).
- Preserves all classical no-hair results for distant observers while allowing rich internal structure.
### 6. Testable Implications and Predictions
- Jet power and variability should show partial independence from instantaneous disk density in low-accretion states.
- Rapid reactivation events (TDEs, sporadic accretion) should exhibit characteristic magnetic reconnection signatures (e.g., high-energy flares or helicity-driven variability).
- Future quantum-gravity simulations or extreme-precision timing (e.g., around Sgr A*) may reveal subtle deviations from pure Kerr consistent with a finite core + bifurcation.
This conjecture is offered as a **solid, observationally motivated hypothesis** that replaces GR singularities with a real, persistent, magnetized physical object at the center of every black hole — exactly as the appearance of infinities in the classical equations demands. It synthesizes gravitational time dilation, magnetic topology, and causal flow across the horizon into a unified picture fully compatible with all current astrophysical data.
This framework originated in conceptual form in 2008 and has been refined through consistency with modern observations (MAD states, TDEs, EHT results). It invites quantitative development, numerical simulation, and eventual confrontation with quantum gravity.
Me ~2008: Blackholes have a magnetic field because logic and should have jets from the poles and an essentially impenetrable magnetic ionizing field everywhere else around it.
Scientists: Nuh uh!
(10 seconds later)
Headline *scientists observe jets from black hole*
(10 years later)
Scientists begrudgingly agree magnetism plays role in jets, insist it's the accretion disk field only.
ME: >.< ...
Today:
Scientists believe all black holes shed jets at the same ratio despite mass, regardless of accretion disk size or any credible mechanism to shepherd material to the poles.
ME:-.- SMH "I need a coffee."
@AlTheBoss03 I don't have an irrational fear of any animal.
I guarantee you though the list of 'NOPE!' has a golden lancehead viper at or near the top.
@NIST *eyeroll*
Why when I was your age young man we just used a washin' machine with a ceramic crucible agitator drum.
shoom shoom, shoom shoom, shoom shoom.
but boy dandy you shoulda seen what it did to the rollers.
You may not be aware of this, but that little charge of power and certainty you feel that 'evil doers' will feel god's wrath, that little dread you feel at the thought of displeasing god, it's a child's tantrum in almost everyone else's eyes.
Virtually no one fears God's wrath.
They might fear speaking up about it because of psycho terrorist fundamentalists, but that isn't God's wrath, that's a psycho thinking they have the authority to speak or act for God.
I fully expect a bunch of shrieking about God's punishment just for saying something from weirdo's and fundies, but my mother had me blessed as a child, which seems to have led to proper respect for the powers that be and a tendency to roll a 20 when it counts.
So, you know, grow up.
You're embarrassing the gods.