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Is it possible to have a stable black hole that does not evaporate?

Black holes would presumably evaporate in the long future via Hawking radiation. However is this inevitable? Or are there any mechanisms that would compensate the lost mass due to Hawking radiation ...
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Hawking temperature, uncertainty principle and size of a black hole

I was playing with the Hawking temperature formula $$T_H = \frac{\hbar\ c^3}{8 \pi\ G\ M\ k_B}$$ and I thought it would be interesting to associate a velocity to this temperature: $$k_B\ T_H = \frac{1}...
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Does a black hole cool off and obey laws of thermal equilibium?

I have read these questions: Kirchhoff law of thermal radiation Why do dark objects radiate thermal electromagnetic energy faster than light objects? And it made me curious. Nothing gets out of a ...
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Universe spawned from the death of a hyper black hole?

Some Cosmologists have speculated that the Universe formed from the debris ejected when a four-dimensional star collapsed into a black hole a scenario that would help to explain why the cosmos seems ...
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Hawking radiation and reversibility

It's often said that, as long as the information that fell into a black hole comes out eventually in the Hawking radiation (by whatever means), pure states remain pure rather than evolving into mixed ...
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