Click for a picture Hawking radiation as particle pairs are created near a black hole (Source: University of St Andrews: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~ulf/fibre.html) Random and featureless sub-atomic [..]

System developed by Stephen W. Hawking in 1974. It states that there are particles around a black hole, a part of which can escape into the infinite. An observer located far away from the black hole gets the impression that the black hole glows with radiation. Until his death, Einstein fought against applying the general theory of relativity to ext [..]

The theory that black holes emit radiation like any other hot body. Virtual particle-antiparticle pairs are constantly being created in supposedly empty space. Occasionally, a pair will be created just outside the event horizon of a black hole. There are three possibilities: both particles are captured by the hole; both particles es [..]

The radiation presumed to be given off by a black hole by quantum mechanical processes.