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by ithkuil 816 days ago
For me, the most counterintuitive thing is that the more energy you put in the colder the black hole becomes.

Is there any other object that behaves that way?

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Lots of human beings behave exactly like that...
temperature is analogous to surface gravity which gets weaker at the event horizon as the black hole grows.

temperature is not expectation of a kinetic energy distribution of micro constituents. you don't measure a black holes temperature with a thermometer because you can't get information out of a black hole

Doesn't a black hole radiate hawking radiation and a smaller black hole radiate with a higher temperature than a bigger one?
Yup wikipedia agrees, temperature is inversely proportional to mass. Surface gravity as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation#Black_hole_e...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_gravity#Schwarzschild_...