Language Log has a very nice summary of the reasons why some holes are black, and some are white.
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As a student of a student of John Archibald Wheeler, whose death I mourned earlier this year, I could not help but notice this Australian novel of Science Fiction:
Striped Holes, by Damien Broderick, NY: Avon,
ISBN-13: 9780380753772
ISBN: 0380753774