Black Holes evaporate into nothing over time.

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  • Опубликовано: 9 авг 2023
  • The #quantum world is filled with fascinating phenomena, one of which is the concept that black holes can evaporate over time due to quantum effects. This intriguing notion is largely based on the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, a fundamental rule in quantum mechanics which states that it's impossible to simultaneously know two properties of a system with perfect accuracy. Specifically, the more precisely one property (such as position or energy) is known, the less precisely the other (momentum or time) can be known.
    This principle leads us to the concept of 'virtual particles'. Think of it as taking out a loan from nature: you can borrow a lot of energy for a very brief amount of time. If enough energy is borrowed, a pair of particles can briefly pop into existence before disappearing quickly to repay the loan.
    Now, let's bring black holes into the picture. Stephen Hawking proposed that this process could occur at the boundary of a black hole, an area known as the event horizon. One particle from the pair escapes (becoming what we call Hawking radiation), while the other falls into the black hole. Over time, this results in the black hole slowly losing energy, or 'evaporating', as it's not repaying the full amount of energy it has borrowed. Thus, in a sense, quantum mechanics can cause black holes to gradually diminish.
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