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Black holes have a temperature and will eventually evaporate completely

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In 1974, physicist Stephen Hawking theorised that black holes emit radiation due to quantum effects near the event horizon β€” pairs of virtual particles are created, one falls in and one escapes, effectively meaning the black hole slowly loses mass. This "Hawking radiation" gives every black hole a temperature inversely proportional to its mass. A stellar-mass black hole has a temperature of about 60 nanokelvins β€” far colder than the cosmic microwave background. A black hole the mass of the Sun would take 10⁢⁷ years to fully evaporate.

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Objects defined by the fact that nothing escapes them are slowly leaking radiation and will eventually disappear entirely β€” they just take longer than the current age of the universe to do so.

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β€œBlack holes slowly evaporate. It takes longer than the age of the universe β€” but they don't last forever.”