| ▲ | nine_k 3 hours ago | |
AFAICT nobody has a consistent theory proven by observations. Some theories offer an explosion in which the singularity vanishes, but this has trouble with information / entropy. Some say a microscopic remnant stops radiating because the original assumptions of Hawking radiation mechanism do not apply at near-Planck scale. Some say that as the curvature grows with the diameter shrinking, the black hole pops off from "our" spacetime and forms a parallel universe, without an explosion. The current age of the Universe is way small compared to the time needed for evaporation, so observing anything like that happening (or not) is hardly possible. | ||