How To Escape From A Black Hole | On Hawking Radiation

A black hole seems like the stuff of myth. They’re mysterious monsters that consume everything in reach, including light. They’re so heavy that they distort space itself to such a degree that the invisible fabric warps into an inescapable whirlpool that only ends in cosmic death and transformation for anything caught in the current.

Hawking radiation is special light that can somehow do the impossible and escape the death grip of the black hole.

How was Hawking radiation getting away? How is this food escaping the event horizon? If a black hole is basically defined as something matter and even light can’t escape, what’s going on here? Why does a black hole glow? Why is Hawking radiation so different?

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