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Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why

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QualityKoalaTeacher@reddit

So a black hole is more like a wood chipper rather than a hydrogen bomb
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DaughterEarth@reddit

It's like a bowling ball on a soapy trampoline
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scrappybasket@reddit

The bowling ball is useful to describe what happens before you reach the event horizon. After that we basically have no idea.
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Sandmybags@reddit

I like to imagine a new universe is born… and looking back towards the black hole from inside is attempting to look at the Big Bang of said universe….everything goes in, becomes one, bang, energies start to separate, lightness and darkness form, eventually certain things’ speed and/or frequency slows to a point they start to form matter, planets, stars, etc….
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Consistent_Owl4438@reddit

Problem is stars are made of finite materials. About.. One stars worth. Not enough for a whole universe I'd assume.
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Sandmybags@reddit

Scale and ‘universe’ could be highly misunderstood like the marbles at the end of the original MIB… but I hear your point
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DaughterEarth@reddit

Yah, no info comes back. It's unknowable
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ones_and_zer0e@reddit

Except that’s exactly the opposite of what this article states: that the information is coming back 3 years later
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T1nFoilH4t@reddit

No it's not. Read the article properly it's click bait. It clearly days the matter does not come from within the black hole. Nothing leaves a black hole ffs. Only radiation. Hawking dedicated his entire life to this fact!!
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newerbalance@reddit

hawking did change his mind on that https://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/22/world/about-those-fearsome-black-holes-never-mind.html
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T1nFoilH4t@reddit

Paywall :/ but I'll research elsewhere thanks.
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DaughterEarth@reddit

No, that isn't what is happening. They don't know. It seems like it avoided crossing the event horizon for linger than expected
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scrappybasket@reddit

Well the article technically gives a range but yea
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captaintinnitus@reddit

Someone draw this. I need a visual aid.
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sonicon@reddit

or God's mouth spitting out watermelon seeds.
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ones_and_zer0e@reddit

More like a recycling center to keep the universe moving
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dopenheart@reddit

Burping up? Like, they come out the way they went in?
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DaughterEarth@reddit

Sometimes black holes "eat" stars and immediately spit them out. But now we observed that happening 3 years later. This is bizarre, we thought that wasn't possible. All the information should have been trapped after that much time
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_extra_medium_@reddit

I'm not shocked that our definition of "that much time" is pretty much meaningless out there. I'm kind of shocked that scientists are shocked
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Mountain-Pain1294@reddit

> shocked that scientists are shocked That's science baby!
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NudeEnjoyer@reddit

but "that much time" was the amount of time they deemed was long enough to get past the event horizon. given the insane acceleration due to gravity near a black hole, 3 years should be plenty of time for that. even if it's the blink of an eye on a cosmological scale
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FarretKitsune@reddit

Well that’s because we don’t know shit about what’s going on out there, not really. I was reading an old astronomy book from the 70s, a lot of stuff in those older books is now wrong by todays understanding of things, jump ahead 50 years from today it will probably be the same deal.
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Sandmybags@reddit

And everything we think we know is easily 10-20 years behind what the DoD and private contractors know… so it’s a good thing all us plebs spend time on the hamster wheel going in debt studying outdated information
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_extra_medium_@reddit

If the DoD and especially private contractors knew anything special, there is no possible way it would remain a secret. We'd all know, and private companies would be profiting from the knowledge immediately. There are actual mysteries out there that are fascinating, there's no need to live in a sci-fi LARP.
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MeetingAromatic6359@reddit

Ceo of Lockheed martin skunk works, previously the advanced development programs, aka where the most highly classified and advanced and exotic aircraft in the world are designed and built, had this to say about it: "We already have the means to travel among the stars, but these technologies are locked up in black projects and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity."
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Lonely-Persimmon3464@reddit

Where he said that? Do you have a source?
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PreparetobePlaned@reddit

But.. he told us about it and he didnt get executed.
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MeetingAromatic6359@reddit

Oh wow, you think the government/military/contractors dont keep secrets? Bless your heart.
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sephelutis@reddit

Psi and magick though Readily available knowledge to anyone, but a highly secretive topic for the DoD It actually fit your definition quite well 🤔
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ModernXenonaut@reddit

> there is no possible way it would remain a secret. We'd all know How many leaks have there been over the years? Take the Tic Tac footage, people thought it was fake CGI for years, until the Pentagon confirmed it was real. And lets not pretend that the governments don't have ways to keep stuff silent. If they didn't, the CI/NSA wouldn't have anywhere near the power they do right now.
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Sandmybags@reddit

Not sure what you meant by you’re last sentence…and I wish you were right…and maybe that’s the case with some secrets….but organizations are 100% absolutely capable of keeping a secret..maybe not ALL the secrets they want…but absolutely some….
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StopCensoringPeopleR@reddit

science is literally "prove me wrong, now do it again"
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TheDizzyRooster@reddit

Unless there’s a pandemic, then science becomes “put a mask on, shut up, don’t ask any questions, trust me bro.”
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happytrel@reddit

Yeah if you're seeing mass die off from a disease and you're figuring things out you start covering your bases. I dont need a condom every time I have sex. She could be clean of std and no where close to ovulation, hell maybe my laptop made my lap too warm this week and most of my sperm isn't even viable. Its still a good idea to put one on. In a world where measles is making a comeback due to vaccine paranoia, it kinda makes sense just to say "put the fucking mask on while experts in almost every country on the planet try to figure put what's going on"
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DaughterEarth@reddit

I wondered if this sub has been weird because of qspiracy people, guess that's true. Uggghhhh they're like mosquitoes
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TheDizzyRooster@reddit

Yeah I guess you’re right, thanks for reminding me that I need to make an appointment tomorrow to get my 17th booster shot.
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Absolute_cyn@reddit

I get where you're coming from. But we didn't see a mass die off from covid. It was an inconvenience with potential lasting effects. And it was deadly to the sick and elderly, like all infections. Also masks for the general populace are garbage. Everyone was reusing them, and not replacing it every 20 mins/2 hours (I forget what the recommended disposal time was, but it was not sustainable. Not even going into how fucking horrible for the environment it is too.)
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Sandmybags@reddit

Science is metal as fuck
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KeepAnEyeOnYourB12@reddit

That's what makes it fun. Imagine how boring it would be if we knew everything.
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TheNotSoGreatPumpkin@reddit

It would drive a god to drink! Or make us, same diff.
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_Paradigm_Shift@reddit

But never ever ever question the current settled science. This is reddit!! You will be banned!!!
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DaughterEarth@reddit

Pretty dang cool imo
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FarretKitsune@reddit

100% agree.
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Ohiolongboard@reddit

There was recently a really big update on it though, one of the lead researchers is on Reddit and I follow him. That’s probably why OP just heard of it
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Easycumup@reddit

May I follow as well? A name or sub?
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Ohiolongboard@reddit

Since it’s your cake day, sure lol. Gimme one second and I’ll send it
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Easycumup@reddit

Didn’t even realize that! Lol, thanks. I was in a group conversation and we got to talking about. Wouldn’t it be something if the black hole started eating the star what the core of the star, being made up of possibly some exotic materials, did not react to light or wave links in our known spectrums, and THAT or something of the sort coming out. Idk.
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Ohiolongboard@reddit

r/andromeda321
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DaughterEarth@reddit

That makes sense, where can I check that out?
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pritt_stick@reddit

maybe it didn’t like the taste
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MyriadIncrementz@reddit

What exactly are they referring to when they use the term "information" in this context? Admittedly I am less than a layman in this stuff, but it seems a strange choice to me.
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DaughterEarth@reddit

At galactic scales we look at things in many spectrums, not just visible light and audible sound. Nothing gets back out after it's past the event horizon, in any wavelength
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Hamudra@reddit

My uncle, Google, told me: In the context of black holes, "information" refers to the physical properties of the matter that has been pulled into
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GxM42@reddit

You’re saying that the material went over the event horizon and then came back out, not as hawking radiation? That’s definitely not supposed to be possible. Could it be material that was still orbiting the black hole from the dead suns, but didn’t make it in the first time, went dark as the rest of the material went in and friction decreased, and eventually got into the path of the jets?
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DaughterEarth@reddit

In the usual case it's flung out after spaghetti and before horizon. I don't think they've determined what happened this time
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Ryllynaow@reddit

Could it be something as dumb as the star orbiting around just beyond the event horizon and being hidden behind the distortion?
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muffpatty@reddit

There is established precedent for this phenomenon. I once chewed and swallowed a Kraft single as a kid, and later that night threw up an intact, square slice of cheese.
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Tris-Von-Q@reddit

Had a friend swear up and down the same thing about a piece of bologna. A whole intact-ass slice of bologna in a puke demi glacé —served puked up in his shoe.
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PmMeUrTOE@reddit

No, its stellar matter, not stars - clickbait title
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spacetreefrog@reddit

Radio signals come out
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Sandmybags@reddit

Probably…Or inter-galactic/universal/dimensional travelers
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L0s_Gizm0s@reddit

No. Read the article.
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Angelsaremathmatical@reddit

Ain't no other side. At least not in the observable universe.
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Mathfanforpresident@reddit

I honestly believe it probably comes out where the black holes north and south "poles" would be. gravity is strongest at the equator. I'm assuming black holes spin, so it would probably be just like earth. weakest gravity at the polar regions
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onheights@reddit

Is that what a burp is?
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ninegreen@reddit

Well if it came out the other end it'd be a fart, wouldn't it.
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YouHadMeAtAloe@reddit

Maybe it would be like a baby bird - the black hole eats the planet and then turns around and poops out a planet sack
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stRiNg-kiNg@reddit

Astral reflux probably
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Conscious_Ad5489@reddit

Comment checks out. That's how black holes on earth work too
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Mountain-Pain1294@reddit

Not just earth but other planets in our solar system
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ValkyriesBard@reddit

Comet checks out.
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vesperpott666@reddit

Razor wit! 👏
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No-Pumpkin-5668@reddit

It’s a spicy meatball 🤌
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BorvicTheRed@reddit

You gotta say ita with the voicea 👌
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Free-Finding9047@reddit

mama mia that's a spicey spaceball!
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TheNotSoGreatPumpkin@reddit

Hawking Indigestion
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jedeye121@reddit

Yep. Same thing happens to me when I destroy pepperoni pizza.
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buffaloSteve666@reddit

Burping up stars…that’s pretty dope
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LightEnergyBun@reddit

Better out then in I always say
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YewKnowMe@reddit

👏😄
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yeaaamon17@reddit

Lmao
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Galactic_Perimeter@reddit

Too much Spocko Bell
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MrlHghgrnd@reddit

Isn't that what Nikodem Poplowski describes in gis big bounce theory? Before that matter gets concentrated to singularity the centrifugal forces make the matter bounce back
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Dont_Be_A_Dick_OK@reddit

Saw this on another thread about this article. From u/Andromeda321: > Astronomer here! This is actually my research and a “magnum opus” that I worked on for two years, and I’m very proud of! So AMA I guess. :) >Here is a much more detailed explanation I wrote discussing the results of my study if anyone wants! But the TL;DR is after studying 24 black holes that swallowed stars >2 years ago, we discovered 10 of them turned “on” in radio that hadn’t had radio at earlier times. Radio emission traces outflows from the inner regions of the black hole where an accretion disc forms (nothing is crossing the event horizon- further out!), and this result is quite shocking from a theory point of view! Exciting times! :) >Edit: these outflows are created by stellar material, aka stuff from the star that was shredded, not literal burning stars. I unfortunately didn’t write the headline! >Edit 2: no it’s not due to time dilation. This all happens too far out for this effect to happen from the event horizon. Nor does it have to do with Hawking radiation- once again, that is an effect that happens at the event horizon.
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harryareola0101@reddit

Op neglecting to add this information to the Post is a bit... Spot on for this subreddit lol.
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Smooth_Squirrel_702@reddit

When are we going to admit we don’t “know” anything and everything they tell us is a maybe educated guess ?
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MeetingAromatic6359@reddit

Its because the star's matter was never truly *inside* the black hole. It never would be. It can only get infinitely close to the event horizon, and we could never see it actually cross the event horizon, but the light from it would be red shifted until it was no longer visible and it would look as if it had fallen in, but it can't. You know how scientists are always talking about what happens inside of a black hole? Theyre never going to figure it out, want to know why? Because you *can't* fall *inside* a black hole! Follow me through this thought experiment and I will prove to you why that is, using nothing more than logic. First, let's talk about time dilation. Two things make time slow down: moving at very high speeds approaching the speed of light and being in the presence of very strong gravity, like near a singularity in a black hole. They're both two sides of the same coin. Gravity and speed. Space and time. Electricity and magnetism. You can't move at the speed of light because, as you get closer and closer to reaching it, time goes slower and slower - approaching infinitely slow (aka a full stop). So theoretically, if you were moving at the speed of light, time would stop. Also it would take more energy than exists in the entire universe to accelerate one particle with mass to the speed of light. Aka you can't do it. Just hang on, this will all start to make sense very soon and it will be totally worth it. In the same way that approaching the speed of light makes time slow down almost infinitely, so does approaching the singularity in a black hole. Light speed is like infinite speed, and a singularity is like infinite gravity, so to equal one of those values, time is inversely proportional and would therefore be zero. Are you starting to get it yet? Let's say Santiago jumps in a black hole and Dunbar hangs back on the spaceship to watch. As Santiago falls toward the black hole, time starts moving more slowly for him the closer he gets. That means, from his perspective, if he turned around and looked back, the rest of the universe would be moving *forward* through time, faster and faster. As he gets very close to the singularity, time for him nearly stops. Think about it, if he actually DID reach it, time WOULD stop, meaning INFINITE time would pass for the rest of the universe. It's starting to make sense, right? But here's the thing. Black holes evaporate. So as Santiago falls closer and closer to the singularity, it has more and more time to evaporate! Therefore! What Santiago would see as he falls toward the black hole! Is he would see the universe flash forward through trillions and trillions of years very quickly, and he would see the black hole get smaller and smaller as he got closer until it disappeared! But since the black hole shrinks as he gets closer, to him it just appears to stay the same and he doesn't even seem to be moving at all! He just sees the universe fast forwarding through time ultra insanely fast! Finally, with the black hole fully evaporated and gravity (and time dilation) gone, Santiago would suddenly find himself at the end of time! Where nothing exists anymore! Because the universe is now so old that even the black holes have evaporated!! Even though from his perspective, he just jumped into a black hole! It just shrank out of existence right in front of him! Now, let's go back to Dunbar as he watches Santiago jump in. Dunbar sees Santiago falling closer and closer to the event horizon, but he never actually sees him fall all the way inside... Because he never will!! Dunbar just sees the image of Santiago kind of get smeared onto the surface of the event horizon, because remember, Santiago's clock is ticking almost infinitely slow now. His time has almost stopped. So he's just going to be smeared almost infinitely close to the surface of the black hole's event horizon for the next 50 bazillion years or so - at least, from the perspective of everyone NOT falling towards a black hole right now. So as you can see!! There is no such thing as "inside a black hole"!!!!! It's as impossible as anything with mass moving at the speed of light! You CAN'T go inside a black hole, it doesn't exist! You can only get infinitely close! Just like you can get infinitely close to the speed of light, but never actually reach it! Same thing! So do it - jump in a black hole! It'll just fizzle away before your very eyes and you'll find yourself on the other side of time, at the end of the universe, where nothing exists! Except for everything that is now popping out of evaporated black holes all over the place many gazillions of years in the future after an arbitrarily long period of time where nothing existed but black holes! Maybe *that* is the big bang - or the next one, anyways! Think about it.... all of the mass in the universe, literally a universe worth of mass which has been locked up in black holes everywhere, is now popping out of black holes, everywhere!!! It's the big bang!!!! Although, to everyone else, you will forever be a smudge. I'm pretty sure I just solved the mysteries of the freakin universe. You're welcome. * mic drop *
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BronzeEnt@reddit

This another one of those spooky titles that makes it sound like whole ass star are escaping the Event Horizon, right?
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SKirsch10x@reddit

What goes in, must come out.
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attoj559@reddit

Lou Baldin said over a decade or two ago that black holes are essentially recycling centers for stars. Dying stars go in, new stars come out and get ejected into deep space and wherever they settle, a new solar system is born. I've been seeing articles like this come out for several years now. If I dare post that an experiencer got this knowledge from ETs on the space reddit I would be made a fool. Thank you for posting this on here so I can share.
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Existing-Pack-1198@reddit

You mean a real star comes out or just a particle cloud?
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MsDeliciousness@reddit

Gases
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T1nFoilH4t@reddit

No, nothing comes out. This is all horribly wrong. Only hawking radiation leaves a black hole.
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VirtualDoll@reddit

.... that, and the remnants of stars they keep spitting up.
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T1nFoilH4t@reddit

Which isn't coming from inside the black hole ffs. Dumb fucks
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HighStrangeness-ModTeam@reddit

In addition to enforcing Reddit's ToS, abusive, racist, trolling or bigoted comments and content will be removed and may result in a ban. Be civil during debate. Avoid ad hominem and debunk the claim, not the character of those making the claim.
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namhtes1@reddit

Which, to be clear, are not coming out of the event horizon.
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attoj559@reddit

I’m not sure. Lou didn’t go into that much detail. I’m sure there is a process to it over a long period of time!
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harambe_nation@reddit

u/andromeda321
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DoNotPetTheSnake@reddit (OP)

Cosmic recycling. Very cool.
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attoj559@reddit

If you’d like, you can look up the Lou baldin guide on google. Someone compiled everything together with an index and there is A LOT of VERY COOL stuff! Fact or fiction still mind expanding.
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BigEarl139@reddit

Like lysosomes in cells? The universe as a 4th dimensional entity that we are a part of. The natural process of redistributing energy to ensure it is not wasted and ends up in places it needs to be. Even outside of that it’s an interesting theory. The idea that the universe would have a way of redistributing itself would basically ensure it’s a never ending process. Always building new stars and systems. Except we can’t know if the black holes are ‘targeting’ older stars.
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feedjaypie@reddit

Cool but this could be literally anything
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captainfrostyrocket@reddit

How do they know the stars were previously consumed? We've only really been watching outer space with any reasonable way to sense a black hole for less then 100 years. Why couldn't the backhoes be creating stars or moving them from place to place
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chage4311@reddit

Well a hole does eventually fill up. You can’t store that much matter for long, everything under pressure eventually finds a spot to escape. Plus it only makes sense to spit stuff back out fast to get it traveling across the galaxy.
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cimson-otter@reddit

Probably because astronomers don’t know as much shit as they think. Everything with space and other planets, is nothing but theories
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WooleeBullee@reddit

Supported by evidence and repeatable results, yes.
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Zufalstvo@reddit

The idea that we know anything about systems that proceed on time scales of millions or billions of years is hilarious
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WooleeBullee@reddit

We can determine some things though, such as the chemical make up of a star, or whether it is coming toward us or away from us, for instance. We can know that a star is behind a star (from our perspective) because of gravitational lensing. There are many other things we can know - to the best of our knowledge - about things millions of light years away, which is genuinely amazing, and it should be amazing!
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Stunning-Formal975@reddit

I think a lot of those things are rooted in certain axioms that might not be as fundamental as they are presented. A black hole sucks up everything and burps up garbage is much like a theorists sucking up lots of theories and trying to make them fit and then produce a lot of garbage.
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WooleeBullee@reddit

I dont understand.
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NudeEnjoyer@reddit

I think they're criticizing the foundation which that information is gathered upon. any theory on the universe is gonna be "if these fundamental things are true, then we can explain this and this" and they don't belief the given fundamental truths are actually true I'm kinda in the middle here. we've done an incredible job of understanding the universe with our capabilities and viewpoint, lots of this stuff is absolutely repeatable and useful. on the other hand, I fully believe we know almost nothing about existence as a whole. and the fact we've done so well as a species creates a confidence that keeps most of us shut out from more 'wacky' theories on what this existence could be, beyond the vast empty space and countless stars/planets out there
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Nosimo@reddit

We are basing conclusions on what we think we know. The trouble is we don't truly know a damn thing. Does that make it easier?
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cimson-otter@reddit

“Evidence” we don’t know as much about space as they say and everytime a story like this is reported, it just proves it.
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WooleeBullee@reddit

I think those researchers will be the first to say we are barely scratching the surface of understanding the universe. But what are the alternatives? Im not sure why you putevidence in quotes, thats all we have to go on is the best theories built on empirical evidence from studies with with repeated results. Science is also the most self critical collection of humans in history, and yes they do revise their understanding based off of the best evidence at the time, which might change sometimes. If only every organization did this!
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cimson-otter@reddit

I’m not critiquing science as a whole, just knowledge on things outside of this world. Their evidence is theoretical because it’s not really able to truly be proven on earth. Not everything can be explained with mathematical equations and terrestrial experiments
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WooleeBullee@reddit

Theories dont really mean "made up," Im not saying you are saying that but it is a common misconception. What makes a theory a theory is that it can be proven or disproven with experiment or study. The theory of evolution, for instance, can be proven or disproven (the overwhelming evidence from studies points to evolution through natural selection being true). The Flat Earth theory can be proven or disproven (the overwhelming evidence through study points to the Earth being spherical). My personal belief is that everything in existence can be studied if it exists. That doesnt mean that we have the abilities to study everything that exists right now, but that at some point it will be able to be studied and known.
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cimson-otter@reddit

I’m not saying that theories are made up, it’s their educated, estimated guess of what something is. The earth is proven spherical, because we have images and proof that it is. However, something like a black hole, that is light years away, is a little harder to study properly. Of course astronomers don’t know why it’s “burping up stars” because they don’t truly know what happens in a black hole. Until we can at least send a satellite through a black hole, we really are just guessing based on photos, especially if everything we’re seeing with stars, may have happened thousands of years ago
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WooleeBullee@reddit

Now you are on the right track!
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Mysterious_Ayytee@reddit

You're discussing with a flat earther
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cimson-otter@reddit

Love how you just assume the most far reaching thing, just because I said astronomers don’t know as much as we think.
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WooleeBullee@reddit

They need to be discussed with the most!
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TheHornoStare@reddit

I'm curious if there is a way to tell if a star has been previously 'burped up' in it's last & when it does eventually spit it out. Is it in a random area near the black hole or does it reappear in the same spot before it was consumed?
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JabberBody@reddit

I'd wager the first law of thermodynamics would be a good place to start hypothesizing-- "All energy is conserved."
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scireverum@reddit

So after reading the article it sounds like normally stars get shredded into an accretion disc and then within a few days all the matter falls below the event horizon usually releasing some radiation as it falls in. then occasionally the radiation acts up again way later like more matter is falling below the event horizon again way later than it should... This really sounds like the gravity well is acting like a centrifuge separating different densities of matter and one just takes way longer to fall in, but my question is shouldn't density not matter because the gravity well and centripetal acceleration would just cancel out in any sort of density gradient? If not density then what quality of matter would a gravity well and centripetal acceleration fighting each other cause a gradient in? If there's no known quality of matter that would cause such a gradient does that mean there's some unknown matter type in these stars that takes longer to be consumed?
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Gladyshandbagger@reddit

Gas will do that.
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IcedDownMedallion@reddit

I think I’m gonna… 🤢🤮
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spartyftw@reddit

Quick, who can respond with the lowest effort karma whoring joke that contributes nothing to the topic?
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IorekBjornsen@reddit

Maybe they are living entities.
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redisthebestflavor@reddit

TIL spaghettification is a thing.
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MasterCapote@reddit

News flash, we still don't know all we think we do and we should stop acting like it.
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newfarmer@reddit

The Big Burp
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myo-skey@reddit

Yup, didn't chew property..
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Southernman1974@reddit

Great, we are all part of a larger digestive system.
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Magicedh@reddit

They suffer from indigestion.
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Alkemian@reddit

Uh, pretty sure "White Holes" are not Black Holes so article is sus.
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Staar-69@reddit

Goodbye Dark Energy, hello Dark Wind.
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Zyr4420@reddit

Keep in mind everything we are seeing is 100s or 1000s of years in the past. Looking at space is like exploring the past. Many of the stars you can see no longer exist.
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T1nFoilH4t@reddit

Very misleading title and article. They clarify further down that whatever is 'turning these back on' and being 'burped out' does not come from within the black hole. Nothing escapes a black hole, only Hawking radiation as Stephen proved. Certainly not physical matter. If light can't escape, how the hell can heavy matter? So no, they aren't burping anything out. There is just some sort of matter emmited from the accretion disc years later... click bait title.
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Montivid@reddit

This. Hoping this comment gets more upvotes so people aren't misled.
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T1nFoilH4t@reddit

Yea everyone is arguing and calling these things galactic recycling centres. 95% of the comments in this thread didn't read the article properly
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CaptKangarooPHD@reddit

When you think black is slimming, but you notice you're still not confident enough, you go to more extreme measures. Such as galactic bulimia.
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Toblakai1979@reddit

My wife always says, "Why fart and waste it when you can burp and taste it!"
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enjoinick@reddit

What if it’s not the same star it sucked in but it’s spitting out a star from another place in the universe?
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PmMeUrTOE@reddit

> does it have to do with Hawking radiation- once again, that is an effect that happens at the event horizon. It isn't being "sucked in" - it's being "sucked near" then getting away again. There is nothing to suggest anything is leaving the black hole, or our universe.
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josephanthony@reddit

Isn't this a bit misleading? It gives the impression that the 'half eaten' remains of stars are being spat back into space, and that's not what it says.
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Borowczyk1976@reddit

Must be hard to digest
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Jaypr36@reddit

Heart burn
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WalkingstickMountain@reddit

It's gas.
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FundamentalEnt@reddit

Seems like they are more the compost bin of the universe than the garbage disposal.
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Ypovoskos@reddit

Black holes is just a theory, nobody ever saw one!
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T1nFoilH4t@reddit

We literally see them with telescopes we have even photographed them...
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Ypovoskos@reddit

No you literally didn't, it's just random telescope photos that could be anything
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itsathrowawaywowomg@reddit

Nah.
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Ypovoskos@reddit

Perfectly constructed argument, ok Einstein 👍😂
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burnorama6969@reddit

I wonder if it tastes better coming up?
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danmiddle24@reddit

What if it's spewing out something from the "other" side?
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Howiedoin67@reddit

"...years earlier..." How much time was it at the black hole?
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scrappybasket@reddit

Have you tried doing that weird thing called reading the article?
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loki_odinsotherson@reddit

Could you try that again with maybe a picture or two?
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Howiedoin67@reddit

Nope. Too weird.
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Goowatchi@reddit

What do you give a black hole that can’t stop “burping up” stars? Gas-X
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ChanceryBrownArts@reddit

A compliment
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WooleeBullee@reddit

Space X
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PathoTurnUp@reddit

Manifest
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chridoff@reddit

Prob some time fart given how time fucks up so mucj closer you get to center
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mightyopinionated@reddit

perhaps a shart?
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Goowatchi@reddit

Shtart
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WooleeBullee@reddit

Gotta shtart somewhere
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chridoff@reddit

Yeah right out of its shartussy
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GuaranteeLogical7525@reddit

Spaghettification... Astronomy has always made me laugh. These folks who watch the stars indefinitely, definitely take themselves too seriously.
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DaughterEarth@reddit

If joke names are taking themselves too seriously I think the standard might be impossible.
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Powrs1ave@reddit

Better Out than In
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f1yboy12@reddit

Indigestion?
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