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How can Hawking radiation maintain the balance of matter and antimatter?

If hawking radiation simply reduces the mass and emits electromagnetic radiation, how can the balance of matter / antimatter be maintained? Couldn't you use some of that $E = mc^2$ energy you would ...
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Using Hawking radiation to turn matter into antimatter and vice-versa

I asked this question on the astronomy stack exchange: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/30477 and it was recommended to me that I instead ask it here. My question is related to the following ...
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No hair theorem for black holes and the baryon number

The no hair theorem says that a black hole can be characterized by a small number of parameters that are visible from distance - mass, angular momentum and electric charge. For me it is puzzling why ...
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