Originally posted by Cobra
ooh, i think i noticed something else...
now how can particles form near an event horizon, when an event horizon sucks everything in around it? and a black hole doesn't spew out 'information' to the best of my knowledge. now wtf was that?
It's known that Black Holes can 'evaporate'.
It's due to the 'quantum cosmic soup'. Everywhere in space, particle-antiparticle pairs appear and annihilate continually. This has little effect usually; they annihilate so fast the energy change goes unnoticed.
But near a Black Hole, there is the possibility that one particle of the pair will be snatched away by the Black Hole's gravity. The other particle takes the energy it needs to become 'real' from the Black Hole, and since it's not inside the event horizon there is a chance it will escape from the gravity well.
Not information,
per se, but Black Holes don't suck in everything.
The event horizon is the point where the escape velocity exceeds lightspeed. Anywhere short of the event horizon it is still possible to escape from the gravity well, depending on your speed.
