MV> Some of you responded, but none of the respondants got it right. No MV> cigar.
MV> It is the temperature associatd with the Hawking radiation of a black MV> hole.
As a dumb question from a chemist (but not totally ignorant in other subjects), could you perhaps explain how a black hole, which is supposed to prevent anything from exiting it - including light, a radiation - is suppiosed to nonetheless be able to radiate some kind of waves/particles? Is there an understandable explanation for "Hawking radiation", and how (if at all) is it detected? Also, if anything at all can exit a black hole, could that not be an interesting thing to investigate?
The very idea seems to me to be a contradiction of the term "black hole".
