This looks at black holes from a different viewpoint. The black holes and normal space are viewed as two parts to a single closed system. the ideas are:- [1] As electrons and protons have mass they cannot travel at the velocity of light. This would mean that there must be three event horizons. (a) The electro-magnetic event horizon. (b) The electron - positron event horizon (c) The proton - anti-proton event horizon [2] If a black hole is in empty space the only influence is that the pairs formed from virtual particles are pulled apart at the last two event horizons. The infalling particles will have more kinetic energy than the emitted particles. From the E = m * c^2 equivalence principle, the kinetic energy differences will add mass to the black hole. [3] Infalling photons should gain energy from the gravity gradient and the “emitted” photon (Hawking radiation from inside the e - p event horizon) should lose energy because of the gravity gradient. Overall photons falling into the black hole would have higher photonic energy than the “emitted” photons. the photon energy differences will add mass to the black hole. [2] & [3] = The original mass of the black hole does not reduce! [Unless bombarded with antimatter!] [4] Black holes have a massive “footprint” in our “normal space” [NS]. Because of this we must consider black holes & “normal space” together, as two parts of “closed system” both from a thermodynamic and a quantum point of view. Properties in & around black holes, including polarisation [polarization] of the cosmic microwave background radiation, are considered from this new viewpoint.