10/16. Mass inflation (Poisson & Israel 1990)

Penrose (1968) first pointed out that a person crossing an inner horizon would see the outside universe infinitely blueshifted.

Poisson & Israel (1990) clarified the full non-linear nature of the instability, which they called “mass inflation.”

Mass inflation is caused by relativistic counter-streaming between ingoing and outgoing streams near the inner horizon. To drop through the inner horizon, the streams must exceed the speed of light relative to each other, which they cannot do.

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