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I don't think that this is true, non-rotating black holes can also emit Hawking radiation. Besides that, there are probably no non-rotating black holes, having
by danbruc 11y ago
I don't think that this is true, non-rotating black holes can also emit Hawking radiation. Besides that, there are probably no non-rotating black holes, having an angular momentum of (exactly) zero is a pretty improbable situation and a single particle falling not exactly radially into a non-rotating black hole would turn it into a rotating black hole albeit with a really tiny angular momentum.
- Retric 11y agoI don't see why it would not work on stationary black holes, but I keep seeing it in reference to rotating black holes. Though, as you say all black holes rotate.
- danbruc 11y agoAccording to Wikipedia Hawking started his work after another physicist pointed out that rotating black holes should emit radiation. Maybe that stuck somehow. Hawking's work followed his visit to Moscow in 1973 where the Soviet scientists Yakov Zeldovich and Alexei Starobinsky showed him that, according to the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle, rotating black holes should create and emit particles.
- Retric 11y agoAhh, ok thanks that's the connection I was missing.