(November 5, 2014 at 11:48 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: In the current era of our universe, no black hole is actually getting less massive. Even a black hole totally isolated in the depths of intergalactic space and deprived of all matter to ingest will still absorb the current 2.73K degree cosmic background radiation faster than it will emit Hawking radiation, so no black holes are shrinking now, and it will be an extremely distant epoch of our universe before they can start doing so. EXTREMELY distant.
I don't recall the source, and its been more than a few years since I read it, but IIRC, we're talking about timescales on the order of a hundred billion to a trillion years.
