Some versions of this story make it sound like the black hole "ate" the star and is now ejecting material from same star. Of course, that is impossible as once material crosses the event horizon it disappears from the observable universe; exception of Hawking Radiation. This article states what was observed was energy and material being ejected from the accretion disc that surrounds from the event horizon. A better analogy would be a baby making a mess eating.
1 posted on
10/18/2022 4:37:18 AM PDT by
C19fan
To: C19fan
The black hole has consumed the US taxpayers.
2 posted on
10/18/2022 4:47:19 AM PDT by
Mashood
To: C19fan
Stacey Abrams belching again?
Couldn’t resist...
To: C19fan
This is what happens when you eat a gaseous planet.
4 posted on
10/18/2022 5:00:57 AM PDT by
Gen.Blather
(Wait! I said that out loud? )
To: C19fan
Maybe it swallowed Uranus from a parallel universe.
5 posted on
10/18/2022 5:03:52 AM PDT by
Clay Moore
(My pistol identifies as a cordless hole punch)
To: C19fan
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
6 posted on
10/18/2022 5:13:10 AM PDT by
moovova
To: C19fan
In the meantime there is a lot of activity at Jupiter’s Great Red Spot and a monolith has been discovered at the Bronx Zoo primate exhibit. Unrelated but fyi, IBM has upgraded it’s flagship and fully functional HAL 9000 supercomputer. Have a nice day!
7 posted on
10/18/2022 5:38:14 AM PDT by
fatboy
To: C19fan
The wonderful thing about science is the continual 'surprises' that occur. What may be occurring is the gravitational effect on a star is greater than the mass the black hole is able to consume. The 'child making a mess' kind of fits that analogy.
It may also be possible the black hole itself has a gravitational mass limited by it's own field and may not be able to 'expand' as it consumes so that extra material, or 'burps' get shot out into space at intervals.
8 posted on
10/18/2022 5:39:12 AM PDT by
Wizdum
(Tyranny always ends badly for the tyrannical. Ask Ceaușescu, Gaddafi or Saddam.)
To: C19fan
The star is probably in an elliptical orbit and at times comes near the event horizon and gets a chunk bitten off.....................
9 posted on
10/18/2022 5:54:25 AM PDT by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: C19fan
From the article:
“How unusual is this?
“Super unusual,”
Said a human with a life span of 80 years, after being able to observe black hole phenomena for about 20 years, in a universe that has existed for a time the human cannot even comprehend. Makes sense to me.
10 posted on
10/18/2022 5:55:23 AM PDT by
suthener
( )
To: C19fan
"Super unusual," "We've never really seen this before to this degree." This is obviously being caused by global warming... Alert Al Gore immediately.!!
11 posted on
10/18/2022 6:00:04 AM PDT by
unread
("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
To: C19fan
“We’ve never really seen this before to this degree.”
There are probably billions and billions (as Carl Sagan might say) of things out there we’ve never seen before. Like Capt. Kirk and his gang found out in the late 60s.
To: C19fan
To: C19fan
Sometimes you get a bad star that causes indigestion.
15 posted on
10/18/2022 7:43:56 AM PDT by
DannyTN
To: C19fan
From five days ago:
A Black Hole Burps out Material, Years After Feasting on a Star
10/13/2022 5:24:51 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 9 replies Universe Today ^ | OCTOBER 13, 2022 BY | MATT WILLIAMS
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