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Do non-black hole masses emit Hawking radiation?

If I put a massive body in a black box, and didn’t know whether it was a black hole or not, would I always observe Hawking radiation? Or is it something specific to black holes?
gpt
Hawking radiation is a particle production effect specifically associated with black holes and event horizons.  Hawking radiation carries away the mass of the black hole, causing it to evaporate, and raising the issue of information conservation (the Black Hole Information Paradox).  

Various other particle production effects occur in QFT, but they should be viewed as distinct from the Hawking effect, which only comes from black holes.