These mfers are like glitches in reality. Even trying to wrap my head around wtf they are freaks me out. How the hell can there be a thing in this universe that has infinite density? That doesn't even make sense.

Ugh

  • boog [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    From my understanding, pairs of particles pop into existence everywhere in the universe, all the time. These particles have a negative and a positive charge, and they cancel each other out moments after popping into existence. However, these pairs of particles can pop into existence in a way that causes one of them to appear inside the event horizon of a black hole, while the other pops into existence outside of the event horizon. Over time, this ??? and the black hole evaporates.

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The particle-antiparticle pair thing is an imperfect analogy. PBS explains it well here https://youtu.be/qPKj0YnKANw