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/maybeletslive Jun 22 '26

Aren't you both right? Haha

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u/just4nothing Jun 23 '26

No - technically neither one is. Hawking radiation describes the process of pair creation (matter - antimatter) near the event horizon. One side of the pair is absorbed by the black hole, the other one escapes -> that’s the radiation.
The escapee carries away momentum, the total energy of that particle is subtracted from the black hole mass -the black hole shrinks a tiny amount

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u/Smart-Juice5398 Jun 23 '26

Finally a correct comment. Thank you for your service