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My (very basic) understanding of at least some form of Hawking Radiation is that, upon the formation of a particle/anti-particle pair near the event horizon, the black hole sucks in an anti-particle leaving the non-paired particle to go off into the universe as "radiation."
But what about the times that the black hole gobbles up the particle and let's the anti-particle wonder off? Hasn't the black hole gotten bigger? Not only that, hasn’t it essentially sucked up matter from outside the event horizon once that anti-particle annihilates the unsuspecting 3rd-party particle?
But what about the times that the black hole gobbles up the particle and let's the anti-particle wonder off? Hasn't the black hole gotten bigger? Not only that, hasn’t it essentially sucked up matter from outside the event horizon once that anti-particle annihilates the unsuspecting 3rd-party particle?