Question for astronomy buffs.

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5. Funny you should ask that question today

because one of the science sites I routinely visit had a decent article on just that: https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-simulated-a-black-hole-in-the-lab-and-then-it-started-to-glow While they didn't create an actual black hole, they managed to create something with a lot of the properties of a black hole and in the process, confirmed Hawking radiation.

It seems to be what the philosopher Alan Watts called the tension between prickles and goo and would seem to confirm that while prickles arise out of goo, they also return to it, although for Hawking radiation to deplete an average galactic black hole would take more time than any of us has.