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Essentially, yes, but not exactly.

My understanding is that particles and anti-particles pop into existence randomly, but quickly cancel each other out. Normally this doesn't affect anything, but if they happen to pop into existance right on the border of the event horizon, one will fall in and one will fall away. Thus matter is very very very slowly "leaving" the black hole. But not because matter inside is making it out, but rather because of some interesting quantum features of the fabric of spacetime.

parent 0xfae 2 years ago

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