black hole evaporation
Black hole evaporation refers to the theoretical process where a black hole gradually loses mass and energy over time, eventually leading to its ultimate disappearance. This phenomenon is primarily described by Hawking radiation, which is the emission of particles from the black hole's event horizon due to quantum effects near the horizon.
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- black hole information loss
- event horizon
- gravitational collapse
- hawking radiation
- information paradox
- mass-energy equivalence
- particle creation
- quantum field theory in curved spacetime
- quantum gravity
- quantum tunneling
- singularity
- spacetime curvature
- thermodynamics of black holes
- unruh effect
- vacuum fluctuations