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Black holes can emit Hawking radiation. Even the ultimate traps leak.

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Hawking radiation is a quantum prediction: black holes should emit thermal radiation with temperature inversely proportional to mass. For a stellar-mass black hole, it’s tiny (around 10⁻⁸ K), far below the cosmic microwave background.

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