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Except they don't relinquish what they gobble up, so they're not making a finite resource (memory) available for re-use, they're a total resource sink. Whether
by qubex 9y ago
Except they don't relinquish what they gobble up, so they're not making a finite resource (memory) available for re-use, they're a total resource sink.
Whether that's ’cool’ or not is a matter of persona preference.
- tdb7893 9y agoDon't black holes emit radiation or something?
- bitshiffed 9y agoHawking radiation, yes. They eventually evaporate.
- _FKS_ 9y agoHawking radiation is speculation AFAIK, there's no observation to back it up.
- KGIII 9y agoSome light reading on it: https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/first-observation-of-hawking-radiation-9d77fa8c8055 https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/first-observation-...
- macspoofing 9y agoOP isn't wrong. That we haven't proven the existence of Hawking Radiation is the only reason why Hawking hasn't won a Nobel.
- KGIII 9y agoNo, just some light reading where we have reason to believe it has been observed and may be able to devise further methods to observe it.
- macspoofing 9y agoI don't dispute that. I think the consensus has accepted Hawking radiation as real ... but we haven't seen evidence yet (and we may never, your link notwithstanding, given how tiny the effect is).
- kalms 9y agoYou're leaving out quasars.
- Neeek 9y agoI thought quasars still aren't relinquishing anything, the jets are matter that never made it past the event horizon.