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On 2002-03-01 14:26, Wiley wrote:
Neutron stars don't evaporate like black holes do. Hawking radiation, the cause of the evaporation, requires an event horizon, which Neutron stars do not have.
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There was an article in Scientific American some years ago, entitled "The Breakdown of Empty Space." Apparently, in the vicinity of a heavy atomic nucleus, you can get "Hawking Radiation," i.e., the "realization" of one of a virtual pair of particles. The other particle is caught by the nucleus. So, if the surface of a neutron star is sharp or sheer enough (and it seems as if it ought to be) then it probably would emit tiny amounts of Hawking Radiation...
Silas