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Old 30-11-2010, 02:57 PM
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Hawking radiation as a blackbody radiation is the only radiation emitted by a black hole.

Other forms of radiation such as X-rays are not emitted by black holes, but rather by the heating of matter to extremely high temperatures before it passes through the event thorizon.

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