Seems like another W.A.G. I can do that too:
Maybe the mass, charge, and spin of matter that falls into a black hole are transformed into something else. Maybe they are unified, transformed into space-time curvature, and eventually radiated away along with photons of Hawking Radiation. But... no one has ever detected Hawking Radiation. Maybe it doesn't exist. Maybe it's just an artifact of a theory that will eventually be proven wrong.
Maybe mass, charge, and spin properties are radiated away by minute gravitational waves created by individual particles rapidly orbiting the event horizon, just like two rapidly orbiting neutron stars generate gravitational waves, but on a much smaller scale. Maybe black holes do not have mass, charge, or spin at all. Maybe all they have is space-time curvature.
Sending a probe to the nearest stellar mass black hole with sensors designed to detect Hawking Radiation should be a priority for future generations, assuming the theory of Hawking Radiation is still taken seriously. The nearest black hole is about 1500 light-years away, designated V723 Monocerotis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_black_holes
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