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beipphine t1_j4y5bdw wrote

Reply to comment by Lyrle in Whats stopping us from sending a probe into a black hole if we haven't already? by stealth941

How do black holes evaporate through Hawking Radiation if nothing can escape?

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Lyrle t1_j4y5nvp wrote

Hawking radiation just appears (poof), it doesn't actually cross the event horizon.

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kilo-kos t1_j56towp wrote

Hawking Radiation is theoretically not at all related to the contents of the black hole; it should be random.

However... that means that when a black hole evaporates completely, all information that entered it is destroyed. This is a huge open problem in quantum physics known as the Black Hole Information Paradox.

Interestingly, one recently discovered possible solution is that information is able to exit the black hole via wormholes that could mathematically exist, but don't... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epSev7ovVew

But really, we just don't know yet for sure. It's certainly possible that Hawking's original description of Hawking Radiation is incomplete or subtly wrong.

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