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localroger

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5. Not really that mysterious

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Wed Oct 12, 2022, 05:21 PM

Oct 2022

A good chunk of the "shredded" star that didn't get swallowed went into an elliptical orbit. A few years is long enough for some of the shredded material to coalesce back into a fairly large single mass, but possibly not large enough to do starlike stuff like fusion any more. Now that mass has come back to the low point of its orbit, and the black hole is taking another munch.

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'We've Never Seen Anything Like This Before:' Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding .. [View all] sl8 Oct 2022 OP

Nature's recycling center. SheltieLover Oct 2022 #1

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I suggest they name this black hole after Turbineguy Oct 2022 #3

Maybe it gor rejected by the opposite side of the black hole. GreenWave Oct 2022 #4

Not really that mysterious localroger Oct 2022 #5

Cosmic gastric reflux Wicked Blue Oct 2022 #6

From the perspective of the material flowing into the black hole... hunter Oct 2022 #7