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Radiation "from a black hole" is actually radiation that arises around a black hole.

As matter is funneled in towards the event horizon, it is compressed and becomes hot. Conservation of angular momentum leads to the formation an accretion disk.

The observed radiation comes from this accretion disk, not from the black hole itself. The inner edge of the accretion disk is often taken to be the innermost stable circular orbit at (approximately) three Schwarzschild radii.

EDIT: I was assuming you were asking about black holes that are actually observed. These are massive enough (a few solar masses and above) that Hawking radiation is totally insignificant. If you are asking about hypothetical mini- black holes, then even in that case the Hawking radiation arises from outside the event horizon.

Radiation "from a black hole" is actually radiation that arises around a black hole.

As matter is funneled in towards the event horizon, it is compressed and becomes hot. Conservation of angular momentum leads to the formation an accretion disk.

The observed radiation comes from this accretion disk, not from the black hole itself. The inner edge of the accretion disk is often taken to be the innermost stable circular orbit at (approximately) three Schwarzschild radii.

Radiation "from a black hole" is actually radiation that arises around a black hole.

As matter is funneled in towards the event horizon, it is compressed and becomes hot. Conservation of angular momentum leads to the formation an accretion disk.

The observed radiation comes from this accretion disk, not from the black hole itself. The inner edge of the accretion disk is often taken to be the innermost stable circular orbit at (approximately) three Schwarzschild radii.

EDIT: I was assuming you were asking about black holes that are actually observed. These are massive enough (a few solar masses and above) that Hawking radiation is totally insignificant. If you are asking about hypothetical mini- black holes, then even in that case the Hawking radiation arises from outside the event horizon.

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Radiation "from a black hole" is actually radiation that arises around a black hole.

As matter is funneled in towards the event horizon, it is compressed and becomes hot. Conservation of angular momentum leads to the formation an accretion disk.

The observed radiation comes from this accretion disk, not from the black hole itself. The inner edge of the accretion disk is often taken to be the innermost stable circular orbit at (approximately) three Schwarzschild radii.