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Are black holes hot or not?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Are Black Hole Temperatures High or Low?

The temperature is really slippery and tricky. Sometimes when we talk about temperature, we mean like how much energy is in the particles inside something. We would like to know what the fund nature of space is. Is gravity actually a quantum force mediated by gravitons, or is space itself quantized into this little foam? It's more than just an academic question of what's at the invisible heart of a black hole. Understanding the nature of space and time might give us great power over it. And so its te only a question worth asking, yes.

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