Virtual particales and black holes.

[medgalis]

Hello,
So i have heard that virtual particlees just pop-in and pop-out of existence, but if a black hole is near those particlee one of the pair of the virtual particlees gets sucked in. So what happens to the other particlee?

 

[mathman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking_radiation

Hawking radiation - see above.

 

[tom.stoer]

Hawking himself presented the popular explanation of Hawking radiation in terms of virtual particles. Nevertheless this explanation is missleading b/c these are not virtual particles in the ordinary sense

 

[dev70]

yeah..that is what you call hawking's radiation..