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Hawking radiation is a quantum-field-theory prediction that black holes are not perfectly black when quantum effects are considered: they possess a temperature and can lose mass extremely slowly through thermal radiation.
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The modern derivation treats quantum fields on curved spacetime; particle definitions for observers before and after gravitational collapse do not coincide, leading distant observers to detect thermal radiation.