Abstract: I will revisit the  low-temperature thermodynamics of near-extremal  rotating black holes that has recently been shown to incorporate quantum contributions that are dominant in this regime. I will also describe how these quantum fluctuations affect the spectrum of emission of particles during Hawking radiation. In particular, I will consider the cases of Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes for emission of scalar particles and discuss photon and graviton emission from the Kerr background.