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How can a black hole stop light from being emitted when all observers see light traveling at the same speed? [duplicate]

Quite literally every science show talks about black holes with a similar phrase: so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape. Let's say I am in space a safe distance from an object. I drop an ...
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Does photon capture in a black hole (or any other "very compact" object) reduce the luminosity/photon flux from its self isotropic emission?

I don't know if this is even a feasible question or if I have a point in asking so. Let's say we can model the radiation coming from a very compact object, such as a BH with an accretion disc or any ...
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Why is a black hole's Hawking radiation temperature inversely proportional to its mass/size?

As a black hole shrinks in volume and mass, shouldn't its temperature get lower? Shouldn't it evaporate more slowly? Naively, (very naively), I think that with a smaller surface area (as per its ...
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Can hawking radiation be eaten by another blackhole?

Just a theory, from this video. At last, only the black holes are gonna exist and even they'll decay because of hawkings radiation. As black holes emit hawkings radiation, then if one emits it, ...
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Strange behaviour of black holes [duplicate]

We know black holes emit streams of radiation ,also recently discovered that they emit visible light when they eat any nearby matter . "We find that activity in the vicinity of a black hole ...