Black holes seem to be timeless, lurking in the cosmos, forever eating and growing. However, astronomers believe that there is a way for black holes to shrink in size and eventually evaporate away. In episode 18 of Subatomic Stories, Fermilab’s Dr. Don Lincoln talks about Hawking radiation, the ultimate fate of black holes.

*Correction: The force numbers for objects 15,000 meters above the event horizon for a supermassive black hole were incorrect. The correct numbers are a force of 860,000 pounds for a 1 kilogram object. A one kilogram object a meter farther away from the black hole will experience a force that is only 7.3E5 pounds lower.*

Gravitational waves explanation
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswi...

Hawking radiation: Technical explanation 1
http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2015...

Hawking radiation: Technical explanation 2
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/H...

Fermilab physics 101:
https://www.fnal.gov/pub/science/part...

Fermilab home page:
https://fnal.gov