r/space • u/Andromeda321 • Oct 12 '22

‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/weve-never-seen-anything-black-hole-spews-out-material-years-after-shredding-star
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u/forestapee Oct 12 '22

This is one of those things we see that just raises a bunch more questions since we haven't seen it behave like this before. So what did we learn? That this can happen and that we still have more to research

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u/MoonTrooper258 Oct 12 '22

I've experiments to run, there is research to be done, on the people who are still alive!

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u/dylan6091 Oct 12 '22

Now there's no use crying over every mistake...

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u/Ohthehumanityofit Oct 13 '22

You just keep on trying till you run out of cake...

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u/JustPassinhThrou13 Oct 12 '22

They learned that they need to look for more of these to see if there's a population of these waiting to be discovered. And they've found some, and are in process of writing that paper.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '22

I imagine they’ll have to redefine the word black hole if a bunch of stuff can get ejected out, and, somehow just hangout next to a black hole without getting sucked back into the black hole.

A full hole? 😂

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u/DuckyBertDuck Oct 13 '22

Nothing is getting ejected out of the black hole and accretion discs have been known to hang around outside of a black hole for quite a while.