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Posted on 10/18/2022 4:37:18 AM PDT by C19fan
Astronomers have published a major finding: A black hole has been "burping" out energy from a small star it was observed shredding in 2018, after two years in which it didn't eject any such material.
How unusual is this?
"Super unusual," Yvette Cendes, an astronomer at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian and lead author of the paper, tells NPR. "We've never really seen this before to this degree."
Researchers made the discovery when they used a powerful radio telescope facility — the Very Large Array in New Mexico – to check in on some two dozen black holes where stars had been shredded after coming too close to them. That is, the material in the star was pulled apart, or "spaghettified." Such happenings are called tidal disruption events, or TDEs.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
The black hole has consumed the US taxpayers.
Stacey Abrams belching again?
Couldn’t resist...
This is what happens when you eat a gaseous planet.
Maybe it swallowed Uranus from a parallel universe.
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
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!
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.
The star is probably in an elliptical orbit and at times comes near the event horizon and gets a chunk bitten off.....................
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.
This is obviously being caused by global warming... Alert Al Gore immediately.!!
Spot on !!!
“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.
Taco Tuesday reaction?
Sometimes you get a bad star that causes indigestion.
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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