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What happens if black holes disappear?
Eventually, as the universe ages, the material around a black hole will run out and its doomsday clock will start ticking. As a black hole evaporates, it slowly shrinks and, as it loses mass, the rate of particles escaping also increases until all the remaining energy escapes at once.
Can anything escape the gravity of a black hole?
The gravitational pull of a black hole is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape once it gets too close.
Does gravity affect black holes?
While black holes are mysterious and exotic, they are also a key consequence of how gravity works: When a lot of mass gets compressed into a small enough space, the resulting object rips the very fabric of space and time, becoming what is called a singularity.
Is gravity stronger than a black hole?
Originally Answered: Can something exist with gravity stronger than a black hole? No. There is some confusionabout where the gravitational force is measured, but nothing stops the gravitation force from being infinite at the center, and all black holes have the same infinite gravity at the center.
What happens to a black hole when it becomes small?
In the late stages of its evaporation, a black hole becomes so small that the rules of quantum gravity must take over. Physicists have hypothesised that the rules of quantum gravity could predict that the evaporation stops when the black hole is small, leaving behind a tiny black hole called the remnant.
What happens to quantum information in a black hole?
As more heat is released, slowly, over time, the black hole will eventually disappear – leaving nothing behind but heat. Whatever the black hole had swallowed would have carried its quantum information with it. However, there is no quantum information present in the heat. Did quantum information really disappear? A fundamental law says it can’t.
What is the black hole information loss paradox?
The black hole information loss paradox is a mystery along similarly bizarre lines. A very fundamental law of physics says that quantum information can never disappear. But this is precisely what seems to happen in black holes.
What happens when gravity is too strong?
When gravitational forces are very strong, for example close to the singularity at the centre of a black hole, the laws of general relativity start breaking down. In these situations, we expect a deeper theory to take over – a theory of quantum gravity.