Tunnelling from black holes and tunnelling into white holes

Abstract

Hawking radiation is nowadays being understood as tunnelling through black hole horizons. Here, the extension of the Hamilton–Jacobi approach to tunnelling for non-rotating and rotating black holes in different non-singular coordinate systems not only confirms this quantum emission from black holes but also reveals the new phenomenon of absorption into white holes by quantum mechanical tunnelling. The rôle of a boundary condition of total absorption or emission is also clarified.