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Old 24-11-2008, 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Zuts View Post
Hi

This is one reason we could see black holes. A virtual partical pair is created just above the event horizon, one part of the pair is captured by the black hole and the other part remains outside the event horizon.

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Paul
Yes.. and this is exactly the mechanism involved in evaporation of black holes.
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