What can be Hawking radiated?

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In summary, a black hole can emit photons, gravitons, and neutrinos. The intensity of radiation is not equal for all three, due to different properties of the fields. If a neutrino has no mass, then radiation from a black hole containing it would be strange.
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A photon and a graviton are both certainly devoid of mass and charge.
Therefore a massive black hole can certainly Hawking radiate either.

Is the intensity of photon radiation and graviton radiation by a black hole exactly equal, or different at some specific proportion due to different properties of electromagnetic and gravitational fields?

When can a black hole Hawking radiate a neutrino-antineutrino pair?
Are neutrino-antineutrino pairs Hawking radiated at a flavour eigenstate (at some average mass), or at a mass eigenstate?
There are observed square of mass differences with the two higher eigenstates. But is there a nonzero lower bound to the lower mass eigenstate of neutrino?

If the lower mass eigenstate of neutrino has mass which is zero or nonzero but small compared to the mass of photons and gravitons emitted by black hole, what would be the power emitted as neutrino-antineutrino pairs compared to the power emitted as photons?

And can a black hole have colour?
Black hole has no hair. Only mass, angular momentum and electric charge.
Colour is not a listed legal hair of a black hole.

A gluon is supposed to have no mass. Even a small gluon mass would be supposed to disturb some observed symmetries (which?).

If a gluon has no mass and a black hole no colour, what can stop a black hole from Hawking radiating a gluon? Because of no hair, the black hole has no colour to colour confine the colourful gluon!
 
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A black hole emitting a gluon would get a color charge and the gluon would have a free color charge as well - it cannot do that. It can emit hadrons, but it has to be really small to have a relevant probability of that.

It is not completely impossible that one neutrino type could be massless, in that case Hawking radiation would also contain neutrinos in addition to photons and gravitons. The powers are not equal due to spin states and so on, but they are of the same order of magnitude. It would be extremely weird to have one massless neutrino state, however.
 
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I was under the impression that Hawking radiation can be anything that is created in pairs? Why is mass a problem?
 
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Hawking radiation has nothing to do with pairs. Don't trust the pop science myths.

The natural mass for the lightest neutrino would be around 0.01 to 1 meV, or 10 to 12 orders of magnitude above the temperature of stellar mass black holes. It can be much lighter or even massless, but that would be quite odd. The radiation is thermal, things with a mass of billions of times the temperature are not produced with any relevant probability.
 

1. What is Hawking radiation?

Hawking radiation is a theoretical type of radiation that is predicted to be emitted by black holes. It is named after the physicist Stephen Hawking who first proposed its existence.

2. How does Hawking radiation occur?

Hawking radiation is believed to occur due to quantum effects near the event horizon of a black hole. According to the theory, pairs of particles and antiparticles are constantly being created near the event horizon, with one particle falling into the black hole and the other escaping as radiation.

3. What types of particles can be Hawking radiated?

Any type of particle with mass can be Hawking radiated, including photons, neutrinos, and even more massive particles such as protons and electrons. The type and energy of the particles emitted depend on the size and properties of the black hole.

4. Can Hawking radiation be observed?

Currently, there is no confirmed observation of Hawking radiation. This is because the predicted radiation is very weak and difficult to detect, especially for smaller black holes. However, scientists are actively searching for evidence of Hawking radiation using various methods and technologies.

5. Can Hawking radiation cause a black hole to evaporate?

Yes, according to the theory, Hawking radiation can cause a black hole to lose energy and mass over time, eventually leading to its evaporation. This process is known as "Hawking evaporation" and is predicted to occur for all black holes, although it would take an extremely long time for larger black holes to fully evaporate.

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