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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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[–] Transcendant 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is my assumption. Clearly the accretion disk isn't the point of no return, or maybe stuff on the inside = past point of no return, stuff on the outside can get flung off?

[–] NightAuthor 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly the point of no return is called the Event Horizon.

[–] Shapillon 1 points 1 year ago

Yes