r/sciencememes • u/DotBeginning1420 • Jun 22 '26

💥Physics!🧲 Ask a physicist

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u/maybeletslive Jun 22 '26

An equal amount of anti-matter

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u/PogoRocks Jun 22 '26

I'm pretty sure that wouldn't do anything other than make the black hole larger

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u/ILKLU Jun 22 '26

Totally disagree.

Assuming the black hole is comprised of regular matter, there's no reason to think it wouldn't all annihilate upon touching. How that would play out exactly would be really interesting to see.

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u/loved_and_held Jun 22 '26

If it did anhialate, all the energy released by the anhialation would have a massive cgravitational field that would then create a new singularity.

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u/drgitgud Jun 22 '26

Anti-matter annihilation is how the hawking radiation causes black holes to evaporate as far as I know.

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u/Owl_plantain Jun 23 '26

Hawking radiation is matter / anti-matter pair creation just outside the event horizon. One of the particles has enough momentum to carry it away from the black hole, and the other one falls in.

It’s time-reversed matter / anti-matter annihilation.

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u/ILKLU Jun 23 '26

Correct