Correct the Hawking‑pair myth

Public science education should stop using the particle‑antiparticle pairfalling‑in explanation of Hawking radiation as the default heuristic because it misstates both the mechanism and the loci of the effect; educators and communicators should adopt a field‑theoretic radiation‑and‑redshift explanation emphasizing low‑energy photon emission and the unresolved information‑encoding problem. — Fixing this persistent misunderstanding improves science literacy, clarifies debate about the black‑hole information paradox, and prevents misleading analogies from contaminating public and policy conversations about quantum gravity and astrophysics.