Black Hole Evaporation

 Also known as Hawking radiation, black hole evaporation is the fact that black holes actually radiate particles. Hawking is the man who first calculated it, among a lot of other things. He's (more than) an excellent astrophysicist and popularizer. For further information about the black hole evaporation, I recommand this http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0010055 and more about Hawking here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking

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