Constructing a counterexample to the black hole complementarity

TL;DR

This paper constructs a modified regular black hole model where an observer can witness information retrieval and encounter the infalling information, challenging the principle of black hole complementarity.

Contribution

It introduces a regular black hole model that allows an observer to observe and meet infalling information, providing a counterexample to black hole complementarity.

Findings

Observer can witness information retrieval from Hawking radiation.

Observer can meet infalling information inside the black hole.

Challenges the universality of black hole complementarity.

Abstract

We propose a regular black hole whose inside generates a de Sitter space and then is finally frustrated into a singularity. It is a modified model which was suggested originally by Frolov, Markov, and Mukhanov. In our model, we could adjust a regular black hole so that its period before going into the extreme state is much longer than the information retention time. During this period an observer could exist who observes the information of the Hawking radiation, falls freely into the regular center of the black hole, and finally meets the free-falling information again. The existence of such an observer implies that the complementary view may not be consistent with a regular black hole, and therefore, is not appropriate as a generic principle of black hole physics.