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General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: atommo999 on November 06, 2009, 09:35:37 AM

Title: evaporation of black holes
Post by: atommo999 on November 06, 2009, 09:35:37 AM

what i want to know is if black holes (supposodly) have infinite density, how do they lose it and just disappear?
from almost every explanation of a black hole i've heard, they say that it makes a hole in time-space, but then how can that rip simply fix itself? i think black holes are a lot more complicated than (most) people think. they can't just simply "disappear" i've drawn a picture on paint to show you what i mean.

Title: Re: evaporation of black holes
Post by: Bla on November 06, 2009, 10:21:57 AM

One word: Hawking radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation). :P
Okay, sorry, that was two words...

Title: Re: evaporation of black holes
Post by: atommo999 on November 07, 2009, 06:34:02 AM

can't wait to find out the results of the evaporation process from CERN :)