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Physics

Hawking Radiation

Quick fact

Hawking radiation is so weak that a black hole with the mass of our Sun would take about 10^67 years to evaporate—far longer than the current age of the universe.

Why this is interesting

You’ve heard that nothing can escape a black hole—not even light. So how could a black hole possibly vanish into a puff of radiation?