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Artificial Black Hole Creates Its Own Version of Hawking Radiation


Black hole (artist's impression)

Nothing, not even light, can escape the event horizon of a black hole.

Credit: NASA and G. Bacon (STScI)

Black holes are not actually black. Instead, these gravitational sinks are thought to emit radiation that causes them to shrink and eventually disappear.

From Nature
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