trailQuantum field theory in curved spacetime predicts thermal radiation from black hole event horizons.
Black holes emit Hawking radiation.
Brane-localized black holes in warped compactifications evaporate rather than remaining stable
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Hawking's semiclassical calculation shows gravitational collapse produces steady thermal emission at temperature proportional to horizon surface gravity
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Independent theoretical derivations converge on the same black hole temperature.
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Analogue Hawking radiation has been observed in laboratory systems.
Spontaneous analogue Hawking radiation has been detected at sonic horizons in Bose-Einstein condensates.
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Stimulated Hawking emission has been measured at analogue horizons in water-wave experiments.
Stimulated analogue Hawking radiation has been observed in nonlinear optical systems.
The reported BEC analogue Hawking signal can be explained by amplified classical noise rather than quantum vacuum emission.
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Trans-Planckian objection and its rebuttals· against
Hawking's original derivation traces outgoing modes back to frequencies far above the Planck scale.
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Alternative derivations of Hawking radiation avoid appealing to trans-Planckian frequencies.
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Modified trans-Planckian dispersion relations in black-hole models preserve the thermal spectrum at the Hawking temperature.
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