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by _FKS_ 3240 days ago
Hawking radiation is speculation AFAIK, there's no observation to back it up.
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KGIII 3240 days ago
Some light reading on it:

https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/first-observation-...

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macspoofing 3240 days ago
OP isn't wrong. That we haven't proven the existence of Hawking Radiation is the only reason why Hawking hasn't won a Nobel.
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KGIII 3239 days ago
No, 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.
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macspoofing 3239 days ago
I 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).
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