Ask Ethan: How does Hawking radiation lead to black hole evaporation? | by Ethan Siegel | Starts With A Bang! | Nov, 2022

In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don’t live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here’s how.
It’s truly a marvel how quickly our understanding of the Universe advanced during the 20th century. At the start of the 1900s, we…