What Happens If You Destroy A Black Hole?

Summary by Krater

This video explores theoretical physics scenarios involving black holes, including whether they can be destroyed, what happens when they collide with antimatter or are overfed, and concludes that while extreme scenarios might dissolve their event horizons or evaporate them via Hawking radiation over immense timescales, destroying a black hole entirely would disrupt fundamental physics.

From the video

Answers: Can black holes be destroyed?

• black holes
• event horizon
• singularities
• antimatter
• Hawking radiation
• spacetime curvature

What it concludes

• Black holes swallow matter and energy at their event horizon, increasing their mass and size.
• Throwing antimatter into a black hole makes it smaller because it only cares about mass-energy.
• Over-spinning or over-charging a black hole past its limits can theoretically dissolve its event horizon, leaving a naked singularity.
• Destroying an event horizon would reveal a naked singularity, breaking predictability and physics as we know it.
• All black holes emit Hawking radiation, causing them to slowly lose mass and eventually evaporate over immense timescales.