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Professor Stephen Hawking famously proposed that black holes interact thermodynamically with the universe, and can emit a weak radiation, which takes his name (Hawking radiation). One explanation is that quantum fluctuations near the event horizon can produce virtual particle pairs which, when boosted by gravity, can become real particles that effectively radiate energy away from the black hole and thus gradually reduce its mass. By this mechanism, black holes could eventually shrink and evaporate entirely.

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