How do black holes die?
In: Planetary Science
At the quantum level, there are teeny tiny fluctuations in energy happening all the time, kind of like foam. Energy, mass, and particles are all kind of fuzzy at this scale, but sometimes these fluctuations in energy spike and two particles are created spontaneously. Unfortunately for the newly born particles, they come in matter/antimatter pairs and proptly smash together almost the instant they’re created and annihilate themselves.
HOWEVER
If, by pure chance, this event were to occur **precisely** on the event horizon, one member of the pair would be ejected, and the other, created inside the event horizon, would never leave. You can imagine that, given infinite time, even the smallest probability events occur an infinite number of times. Imagine putting 100 billion suns worth of matter through a drinking straw. It’s not impossible, the question is only how long it will take.
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