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Cold_Zero_ t1_j278bhl wrote

Hmmm. Interesting. So, how do particles escape from inside the event horizon, as in black hole shrinking?

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dastardly740 t1_j2797vf wrote

They don't. Hawking radiation doesn't come from inside the event horizon. I am trying to paraphrase Matt O'Dowd here, but the short short version as I understand, an event horizon causes certain frequencies in quantum fields to no longer cancel. The effect is that, for an observer far away from the black hole, the black hole emits radiation. The energy comes from the mass of the black hole, I don't think anyone really knows how that happens since we don't really know what a black holexs mass is made of (if anything),

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urmomaisjabbathehutt t1_j27ka5n wrote

Just over the event horizon are strong vacuum fluctuations caused by the strong gravitational field around the black hole, those fluctuation generate particule pairs

for pairs generated at the edge of the event horizon for example an electron positron pair one particule will fall back into the black hole but its anti particule will escape because particule and the anti particule are pointing to opposite directions

The energy for this is supplied by the black hole gravitational potential

this result in bh mass loss

Edit, out of curiosity why downvotes?

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