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Are black holes hot or not?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is a Black Hole Hot?

According to einstein, black holes are old. Theu're like infinitely cold, or perfectly cold. But stephen hawkins says that if we live in a quanti mechanical uni verse, than that cannot be true. So he did a bunch of fancy calculations in quantum field theory and discovered the only way this works is if you have radiation coming out of the black hole.

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