This was partially inspired by the event horizon post, I’ve heard of Hawkings radiation recently but don’t understand it, any help?
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Every object in the universe emits a ‘blackbody radiation’ equivalent to its temperature. Hawking radiation is a black holes equivalent to that, caused by the propensity for normal empty space’s quantum fluctuations to spawn virtual pairs of identical particles which immediately annihilate thereby leaving nothing but normal background fluctuations. Sometimes half of these particles are just within the boundary of the event horizon and the rest are not, those that are not do not immediately annihilate, and allow information/energy to be extruded from the black hole, denoting their ability to evaporate.
edit: I misspoke, the virtual particles are identical but opposite charged particles, so things like electrons and positrons, a particle and its antimatter counterpart.
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