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Is it possible for black holes to lose their "black hole" status?

If a black hole eventually radiates it's mass away through hawking radiation, can it get to the point where it does not meet it's schwarzchild radius, and loses it's "Nothing that passes it's event horizon, not even light, can return" property?
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Black holes can only have masses much greater than the Planck mass. A black hole evaporates through Hawking radiation until its mass starts to near the Planck mass. Around that, full quantum gravity takes over and you cannot simply speak of a standard black hole anymore. There are a couple things that can happen:

- the black hole becomes some stable (i.e. not evaporating anymore) object with mass ~ Planck, called a "remnant"
- the black hole completely disappear leaving only particles (which have all mass << Planck)

The second is considered much more likely in general. The details however depend on your preferred theory of quantum gravity.