Black-hole evaporation accelerates as it shrinks: room-temperature radiation at asteroid mass, solar heat at mountain mass, then a massive final burst.
Black-hole evaporation accelerates as it shrinks: room-temperature radiation at asteroid mass, solar heat at mountain mass, then a massive final burst.
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