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The Evaporation of Black Hole Through Hawking Radiation

Hawking radiation is the equivalence of energy and mass. It turns out in the vicinity of a black hole, the energy density of the gravitational field is so high that the energy will spontaneously create particle pairs. And it creates a matter, an antimatter particle. One particle falls back into the black hole while the other escapes. That's the evaporation. You take the inventory of those particles and it is exactly what fell in and got spaghettified in the first place. Oh my god, yes. There is some communication in the system where the entire system remembers what matter it had eaten. Wow. That is an incredible... Yeah.

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