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Black Holes in Central Park

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Can Black Holes Die?

In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking tried to figure out if black holes have a temperature. After many years, like 10 to the 50 years, a black hole could completely evaporate away. Virtual particles can form right at the event horizon of a black hole. These virtual particles are usually like anti-particle particle pairings. And there's this extra time because quantum field theory is so strong.

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