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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It couldn't be the actual black hole past the event horizon, right? It would logically seem that inescapable precludes burping or farting matter

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

scientist quoted as saying black holes were "shitting [their] guts out" and "blowing megachunks all over the proverbial tile floor of space"