My understanding of Hawking Radiation is that it is a pair of virtual particles that pop into existence at the edge of an even horizon. The anti-particle falls into the event horizon thus slightly reducing the holes mass.
My question is this: The anti particle will fall in 50% of the time... Wouldn't that mean that 50% of the time, the regular particle falls in... thus adding the same amount of mass that was just deducted?
In some cases, couldn't a black hole increase in mass if just a tiny bit more regular particles fall in that anti- particles?
