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Are black holes hot or not?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What's the Temperature of a Black Hole?

In terms of black hoals, i think what you're saying is that temperature is ormerly defined as like the kinetic energy, or how fast the particles of something are moving. The fascinating question about black holes is that we don't know what's going on inside them microscopically, but we can ask questions about their radiation. Do they give off any radiation? If we use radiation as a way to measure temperature, then we can talk about the temperture or something without having any idea about what’s going on inside it microscopically. Like we can measure the temperature of the sun without knowing, like, how do those plasma tubes work inside the sun? What

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