Why Black Holes Emit Light
A Simplified Explanation of the Physics Underlying the Hawking Radiation
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9 min readJun 6, 2020
According to Einstein’s classical theory of gravity, a black hole is a region of spacetime with an extremely strong gravitational field from which nothing can escape (not even light). As a result, black holes can only absorb matter. A consequence of this property is that the size of black holes…
