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Do black holes evaporate over time?
Black holes can actually lose mass. Stephen Hawking theorized in 1974 that black holes radiate small numbers of particles (mainly photons), a process known as “Hawking Radiation”. This “evaporation” process can lead the black hole to shrink over time and ultimately to vanish completely.
Is time frozen inside a black hole?
Near a black hole, the slowing of time is extreme. From the viewpoint of an observer outside the black hole, time stops. For example, an object falling into the hole would appear frozen in time at the edge of the hole. According to Einstein’s theory, time and space, in a way, trade places inside the hole.
Does time stop inside event horizon?
If you’re sitting outside the event horizon watching a clock fall in, you will never see the clock reach the event horizon. You will see the clock slow as it approaches the horizon and you’ll see it running slower and slower. However there is no sense in which time stops at the event horizon.
What happens to matter beyond the event horizon of a black hole?
What’s special about an event horizon is that once anything, matter or even light, passes beyond the event horizon, it can never escape from the black hole, and will continue falling towards the center of the black hole, which is called a singularity.
Is time travel possible in a black hole?
The inner event horizon of a rotating black hole, also known as the Cauchy horizon, is stranger. Past that threshold, cause no longer necessarily precedes effect, the past no longer necessarily determines the future, and time travel may be possible.
Why can’t we know what’s beyond an event horizon?
This is because at that point, the gravitational field of the black hole is so strong that nothing, not even light, can reach the escape velocity necessary to leave the black hole. Because of this, it’s impossible to get any information out of a black hole, so we can’t really know what’s beyond an event horizon.
What happens when an object falls through the event horizon?
That depends on whether we are talking about the perspective of the object falling through the event horizon, or of an outside observer. The event horizon is the distance from a black hole in which space-time closes, that is, all possible lines of motion still lead to the singularity at the very center of the hole.