Hawking radiation and strong gravity black holes

We show that the strong gravity theory of Salam et al. places severe restrictions on black hole evaporation. Two major implications are that: mini black holes (down to masses ～ 10^?16 kg) would be stable in the present epoch; and that some suggested mini black hole mechanisms to explain certain astrophysical phenomena would not work. The first result implies that f-gravity appears to make black holes much safer by removing the possibility of extremely violent black hole explosions suggested by Hawking.