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And that suggests that we might be able to see one of these phenomena much sooner than expected. And there's up to about a 90% chance of witnessing an exploding black hole in maybe about the next 10 years. Our current space and ground-based telescopes are already capable of detecting an explosion like that. Black holes are most likely to explode, part of the mass of stellar remnants, but rather these small primordial black holes, PDHs, I'll refer to that as we go on here. And Stephen Hawking, Stephen Hawking showed in 1970, the lighter a black hole is, the hotter it becomes and the more particles it emits through Hawking's radiation. So as these PDHs evaporate, they become even lighter, and as they do, the same hotter, emitting even more radiation in a runaway process until they just explode.