From what I understand about Hawking radiation, a virtual particle comes into existence very near the event horizon of a black hole. This causes one part of the particle to fall into the black hole, and the other can radiate outwards. When the anti-particle falls in, it will collide with a particle and annihilate, making the black hole lose mass.
Does that mean that it's only anti-particles that are being captured by the black hole? Wouldn't we expect the non-anti-particle to fall in just as often, which would make the black hole stay about the same mass? Is there any reason that an anti-particle from a pair of virtual particles would be more likely to descend into the black hole?
