Hawking Black Holes
This animation explains how the wedding of quantum mechanics with general relativity
implies that black holes might not be completely black. They may be able to radiate their
mass away, given a long enough period of time. The quantum mechanical
mechanism by which a black hole can effectively emit particles is called the
Hawking mechanism.
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