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Why do black holes evaporate?

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Only relatively small black holes (radius is less than 1/10mm) evaporate. This is because they emit small amounts of thermal radiation. This radiation is energy. Energy is just another form of mass (E=mc^2) so it will eventually lose mass if it doesn't gain enough.

Bigger black holes don't evaporate because they pull in more mass and energy than they emit. They pull in things such as stellar dust and background radiation.

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that's not truly known. there is a theory relegating VERY SMALL black holes but it is still an unproven theory.

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