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Could there be a magnetic version of Hawking radiation?

From my, probably flawed, understanding of Hawking Radiation, virtual particles get turned into non-virtual particles. I'd imagine since both Gravity and Electromagnetism both follow the inverse ...
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Do black holes radiate light? [duplicate]

I have a difficulty with understanding Hawking radiation. So far, I have "understood" (I can be wrong!), that the intense gravity of a black hole can split pairs of virtual particles so that one ...
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Can light escape a black hole? [duplicate]

I heard that a black hole is not black because it's escape velocity is greater than or equals to the speed of light. But instead it is black because the light that gets emitted from a black hole gets ...
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