.
That's how long you'll have to wait and find out.
One hundred trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years. Or,
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
You see, that's how long it takes for a black hole the size of our sun to evaporate.
Hawking radiation, that's the ticket.
The black hole slowly leaks particles, losing mass, until poof, it's gone.
What happens next?
Does it turn into a star? A nebula? A cosmic quesadilla?"
Well, not exactly.
The thing about black holes is they're not like other cosmic objects. They're not made of stuff, per se.
They're more like...holes in the fabric of spacetime.
But, and this is where it gets interesting, as the black hole evaporates, it might leave something behind.
Not a star or a gas cloud, but a concentrated nugget of pure information. This is a mind-bender, even for physicists.
Some think this information could be the key to understanding the universe's deepest secrets, while others think it might just disappear into the ether.
There's a theory floating around about a black hole remnant. Something left behind when a black hole evaporates.
Not a star, not a cloud, but a nugget of pure information. This nugget, the theory goes, might be the key to unlocking some of the universe's most tightly held secrets.
It's a long shot, a cosmic gamble, but that's the kind of stuff that keeps us stargazers up at night.
It's the mystery, the unknown, the sheer audacity of the universe that keeps us reaching for the stars, even when they're a hundred trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion years away.
