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Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why (www.livescience.com)

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Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why::Years after ripping stars to shreds, 24 black holes suddenly flared up with radio waves in inexplicable 'burping' bouts. Half of all star-killing black holes may experience the same.

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[-] cunning_bolt@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

It sounds like the matter isn't coming out of the black hole, but actually the accretion disc that is in the process of being sucked into the black hole so we aren't breaking the event horizon threshold as title suggests

[-] Kerfuffle@sh.itjust.works 33 points 10 months ago

we aren’t breaking the event horizon threshold as title suggests

It wouldn't be pop-sci if it didn't have a misleading clickbait title!

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