(November 17, 2013 at 3:12 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: Interesting that blackholes emit radiation, I thought it's so dense that nothing can escape it. I'll look it up. Good stuff.
Nothing does escape a black hole. The Hawking radiation, if I remember correctly, comes from one pair of a virtual particle pair that appears right on the edge of the black hole. One of the couplet spontaneously appears on the inside, the other on the outside.