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You got it! Quite right on everything, Hawking radiation is a VERY slow loss of mass. If our sun were a black hole, it would take 10^67 years for Hawking radiation to make it melt away. Comparatively, the universe will run out of stars in like 10^14 years. Any black hole still gaining mass will be growing faster than it is shrinking. So, don't expect to see any black holes evaporate away while any life still exists in the universe, haha.
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