>if a black hole is space/time imploding in slow motion what happens when it's done?
It's not.
A black hole is just matter, like any other matter, just densely arranged.
Hawking radiation are particles, and not just photons. It's not all electromagnetic radiation.
Also, only light that crosses the event horizon can't escape, Hawking Radiation is created outside the event horizon, so as long as it has enough energy it can escape.
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This gif is making me nervous. For some reason space creeps me out like no other thing.
How do black holes die? What stops them from eating away at its surroundings forever.
It not happening in slow motion.
A man (or a probe) dropped into the hole passes through the event horizon and (according to the solutions to the Einstein equation) keeps right on going, reaching the central singularity, in finite time -- as measured by his own clock! The equations only break down in the final instants before the singularity is reached.
External observers see the man SEEM to slow to a crawl at the horizon and never make it through. He just red-shifts and fades into blackness. Conversely, if the man looks up (back the way he came) just before crossing the event horizon, the external universe blue-shifts and speeds up.
A black hole is not matter -- save for whatever has fallen in but not reached the singularity yet. It's a self-maintaining distortion of space-time. It is not the residual gravity field of whatever's inside because whatever's inside can have no effect on what's outside..
Hawking radiation is created outside the event horizon. Virtual particles (the result of vacuum fluctuations) pop into existence just outside the EH. One may escape and the other fall in. ALL sorts of particles are produced this way; photons, protons, neutrons, electrons, gravitons. The smaller the hole (and the sharper the gravity gradient) the more likely that shorter wavelength particles (with higher energies) will be produced. If we just look at the photons, their distribution is precisely that of a black body (a solid which absorbs all radiation and emits it solely as a function of its temperature. Planck introduced the notion of the quantum while trying to explain why black bodies act the way they do.)
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Black holes, unlike in the movies, do not simply vacuum up everything. They have no more gravitation than the mass which went into them.
If the Sun abruptly collapsed into a BH the Earth would continue on its yearly orbit without a bobble. It would get dark, of course.
To avoid falling to a hole, just don't go too near and keep moving. It's not like it puts out tentacles and grabs at prey.
Holes "evaporate" due to quantum processes. But it's immeasurably slow. A Sun-sized hole would stick around for maybe 10^70 times the current age of the universe. (I'm not even going to try to spell out how many billion, trillion, quadrillion, etc. years that is.) Future life-expectancy varies as the square of their current mass, so the supermassive ones at the centers of galaxies will last even longer.
A black hole is matter, it has mass, it just isn't in a form that we are familiar with.
It's not matter. Unless you have a very loose definition of "matter".
Not protons, neutrons, quarks, or gluons. Light has mass, but it's not matter.
A BH is not light either.
It's a self-sustaining gravity-field. Period.
Thorne explains this very clearly in these very words. Read Thorne or another semi-technical treatise on General Relativity.
Whatever's fallen inside cannot be touched or probed and it has no effect whatsoever on the external universe. It has no properties whatsoever except mass, spin, and charge.
When I say "mass" I mean you can move a BH with gravity or charge. And it will resist moving. It has mass -- both gravitational and inertial. But it's not matter.
>Light has mass
I have some bad news for you.
Well how the hell do you define a Black Hole anyway? Besides those awful vacuum-cleaner depictions in media.
As something your mom sat on