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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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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It sounds like the matter isn't coming out of the black hole, but actually the accretion disc that is in the process of being sucked into the black hole so we aren't breaking the event horizon threshold as title suggests

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

we aren’t breaking the event horizon threshold as title suggests

It wouldn't be pop-sci if it didn't have a misleading clickbait title!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It couldn't be the actual black hole past the event horizon, right? It would logically seem that inescapable precludes burping or farting matter

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

scientist quoted as saying black holes were "shitting [their] guts out" and "blowing megachunks all over the proverbial tile floor of space"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] agitatedpotato 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

No indication that any of the returning matter ever made it beyond the event horizon but how wild would it be if matter can come back from that somehow, would shatter current understand of the phenom.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ok so black holes are just teleporters to other dimensions right?!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's a one way teleporter to a single dimension, because you're entire mass will be a single imperceptible point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

But it's not a single point though, because blackholes with a different mass have different sizes, so it's more like a "maximum density" that can exist in this universe...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's an oversimplification, but something with the mass of say, a human, will be crushed into a very very very very tiny space. A much smaller space than 0.1mm radius, which would hold Earth's moon's mass of 7.342×10^22 kg.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes... And something with the mass of the universe will crush into a significantly larger (yet comparatively tiny) volume of space... Thus, a black hole is basically the maximum density we can currently comprehend and theorize.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Size and density have non-standard definitions in this context.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As far as i know the Mass of the black Hole is concentrated in the Center (singularity). But it is surouded by its schwarzschild Radius. Anything that enters it cant escape.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Well, unless it burps

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

That's what the current understanding of physics says. But given that there are singularities that come out of the math, all that really means is we don't actually know what happens inside a black hole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Kind of like the lump that forms in my chest when I get a phone call

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I equate it to a can of spray cheese. Small hole, puffy cheese.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I thought you were making this up, but apparently there actually is "cheese" that comes in a spray bottle.

What the wiki article does not explain, is why.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some people put it on crackers but when I was growing up we always put it in the bugles chips.

That is also why I always thought people who pretended to have witch nails by wearing bugles were weird, I was always like “why would you put cheese all over your fingers…”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe it's just because I'm still shocked at the existence of this product, but I don't see why either of those use cases need cheese in a can instead of just cheese.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Partly it's convenience, but I think the main reason is you can get cheddar and bacon flavored spray cheese.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Real cheese takes a couple seconds to scoop or even slice. The can is as simple as flexing your finger, and an endless stream of “cheese” comes out!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Dogs are big fans as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

They used to take them on dive trips and squirt it in the water and the fish would eat it. Some diver masters would play jokes and squirt it in other divers hair and the fish would start eating at their hair.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

EASY CHEEEEESE!

There's a place in Philly that uses it as the cheese for their steak subs.

It's wrong, but they still do for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Wrong to whom? It’s the same thing as Cheez Whiz, which is the right cheese.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Cheese flavoured foam extrusion

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bruh ez cheese on a Ritz or club cracker. If ur brain doesn't go nuts for that u don't have a single taste bud.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know what it tastes like, but it looks like American cheese.

Is the flavour different from say, cheese whiz, a plastic cheese slice, or an unspiced queso?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It'll teleport you from the third dimension to the first dimension.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So would it be appropriate to say they are passing gas?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Based on that username, I feel like you'd be a subject matter expert.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

What if we're currently travelling through one right now and we forgot to turn the oven off

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wonder if it could be caused by other celestial bodies captured in the black hole's orbit. Some new mass approaches the accretion disk and the gravitational pull slingshots some of the disk's matter out.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Maybe black holes sometimes momentarily change into white holes? 🤔

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Galactic indigestion

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Like whole stars or?

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