Black holes aren't so black

[hawkingfan1]

If a negative and positive sub atomic particle enter a black hole the positive one will be able to escape the black hole's pull but a negative sub atomic particle will be pulled in. This particle will cause the black hole to emitt microscopic radiation which will make light. Out of darkness there is light!

[neutralino]

What do you mean by a negative or positive subatomic particle?

[hawkingfan1]

A proton and Electron.

[neutralino]

Do why can a positively charged particle 'escape the pull' (whatever that menas) if the black hole?

[hawkingfan1]

I am not entirely sure, I have tried in the past to research this but have had no results. We do know this is possibe as far as it has been mathematically proved!

[Mohan.C]

I was under the impression it was matter and anti-matter...

[austintorn@aol.com]

I think Hawking sees the particle that escapes the black hole as a the one of a pair of just created virtual particles that was just outside of the black hole boundary, its partner staying within the black hole.

The black hole boundary would have to be particularly small, I guess, but I suppose that there has to be a point where that is.

Everything leaks.

[neutralino]

I am not entirely sure, I have tried in the past to research this but have had no results. We do know this is possibe as far as it has been mathematically proved!

So how do you know this is mathematically possible if you don't know why? Could you cite any work discussing this?

[dleviwing]

The gravity of a black hole has the same influence on the mass of an electron as it does on the mass of a proton or neutron, or meson, or any other on particle. Electrical charge is irrelevant to the influence of the gravity of a black hole object.

I would check that mathematical proof if I were you.

[Max™]

Oops.

Hawking postulates that virtual particle pairs (what I believe is just the fabric of spacetimes lowest energy state) can form near the edge in such a way that the forces acting between the pair causes the one nearest the hole to give an inertial kick to the other one.

Stand on a diving Board with someone who weighs the same as you.

They're facing you, back to the board, and you're standing normally.

Jump up and forward a little off the board.

In midair, your partner pushes back on you, and you land back on the board while they fall in.