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.

  • agitatedpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    No indication that any of the returning matter ever made it beyond the event horizon but how wild would it be if matter can come back from that somehow, would shatter current understand of the phenom.

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      1 year ago

      It would be amazing if that happened! We desperately need to be proven wrong somewhere if we want to develop a theory of quantum gravity.