I have a question about the Hawking radiation.

As far as I understand, pairs of particles with positive and negative energy always pop out randomly from "nowhere" and annihilate immediately after.

When this happens near the event horizon of a black hole, it is always the particle with negative energy that falls into the black hole, and the particle with positive energy is emitted as Hawking radiation.

Now, I would expect that gravity is repulsive for particles of positive and negative energy, therefore the anti-particle with negative energy should be repelled by the black hole instead of falling in.

Probably there is something basic that I am missing. Could someone help me in understanding this?

I thank you in advance

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