Comment by jfengel

Comment by jfengel 17 hours ago

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And black holes are much colder then their surroundings, i.e. the Cosmic Microwave Background. And they will be for trillions of years.

dr_dshiv 11 hours ago

Do you mean singularities are much colder? Because everything outside of that is super hot, no?

  • jfengel 8 hours ago

    We can only talk about the surface. The surface emits basically no radiation at all. The amount of Hawking radiation it emits is practically non-existent. It's truly black.

    The temperature inside could be anything. You could well be inside a black hole right now.

    Even if we were inside one we couldn't really talk about the temperature of the singularity. The singularity is a divide-by-zero error. It probably doesn't physically exist at all, and whatever does exist is beyond our ability to model.