On Sat, 2025-06-07 at 17:23 -0400, Lee Winter wrote: > Based on those documents, can you describe "how it works"? The > documents don't. They just assert that all radiation reduces the > mass of the black hole. How is that reduction accomplished?
Radation has mass, as can be seen from m = E/c^2. If a pair of virtual photons are created by the stress at the event horizon, one falls into the black hole, and one escapes, the black hole loses mass.