How do black holes die?
In: Planetary Science
We know from Einstein’s E = mc^2 that mass is a form of energy.
A weird (even by QM standards) part of Quantum Mechanics is the appearance and disappearance of virtual particles; these have mass.
If one particle appears either side of the event horizon of the black hole then its mass will decrease over time (this happens really slowly at first then speeds up as the black hole gets smaller.
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