Black Holes Keep Burping Up Stars They Destroyed Years Earlier

A new study has found evidence of black holes ‘burping’ out matter years after consuming a star…What can cause this? Can anything survive a black hole? I speak to Dr Yvette Cendes to find out more about Tidal Disruption Events. Black Holes are astrophysics enigmas and they just got weirder.

I want to say a big thanks to Yvette for jumping on a zoom call with me. If you’re interested in Astrophysics, Yvette has compiled (and consistently updating) a fantastic guide on how you can look towards it as an astronomer

Chapters:

00:00 Black holes keep burping up stellar remains
0:47 What is a black hole?
1:40 What Happens When a Star gets too close to a Black Hole
3:10 How do We Measure Tidal Disruption Events?
4:10 A Strange Discovery - Black Hole Burping
5:20 The Cause for Investigation
6:50 What is Causing Black Hole Burps? Debunking Theories
10:39 Conclusion

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[DrBenMiles]

Thank you so much to Yvette for talking with me about this topic. Check out the link the description for her recommendations for joining the field of astrophysics

[ProjectPhysX]

Could it be that the "eating" of the star some time later changed the rotation axis of the black hole, such that it's polar jets are aligned towards Earth and observed as a flash?

[woody]

Great explanation and fantastic graphics, thank you Ben.

[cabanford]

Great channel. Would love some longer format, slightly deeper dive clips too ❤

[Blazeww]

Or maybe inside a blackhole, the conditions allow for matter to go faster than light. Some event inside launching stuff back across the event horizon and lossing energy as it does dropping the speed to the universal speed limits of matter outside the blackhole.

[diegoalejandrosanchezherre]

I don't grasp if the studies are saying that the star material are escaping of the black hole itself (like behind of the evento horizon) or is escaping of the acretion disc ??

[djstarrjunkie]

Could any of these black holes, be in any way, shape, or form, connected? (Like the IN's, the OUT's of possible wormholes?) Could the fabric of space-time bend in such a way, that it turns a black hole into a wormhole-ish type phenomena?

[JoeCensored]

I've had a theory that a massive object orbiting the black hole, such as a smaller black hole, would alter the shape of the larger black hole's event horizon. The event horizon would shift closer to the center. This might allow matter just inside the event horizon to suddenly find itself on the outside.

[inthefade]

That Spaceballs clip... I saw that movie dozens of times as a kid, and only now did I just actually get the joke in that scene as I thought about it.

[TerryBollinger]

Dr. Ben Miles, thank you for bringing up Yvette Cendes' work. It is easily some of the most interesting and significant sets of astronomical data I've seen in years. My comment earlier today, 22 Sep 2023, is now a CC BY 4.0 DOI-registered paper with five figures (the figures help):
T. Bollinger, _Black Hole Burps and the Asymmetric Orbital Scale Hypothesis, _ TAO Physics *2023, * 0922 (2023).

[TheGamblermusic]

Amazing news, this is the shit that should get on all news channel all the time.

[prdoyle]

I wonder if the star's core could survive and orbit for a while, maybe picking up material from the accretion disk, and then finally undergo some kind of final catastrophe a few years later? Maybe like a Type 1A supernova?

[Bassotronics]

Since Black Holes severely warp space time, when a black hole compresses an object, it actually decompress it out again but relative to us it can take years! All because of like I said how severe they warp space time. A photon can take 7 minutes from the sun to us but for the photon itself, was an instant.

[Chris.Davies]

All bets are off: Black Holes do not exist.
I have no idea what they actually are, but it seems obvious they are not wrapped in apocryphal event horizons.
I spent decades being in love with Black Holes, and it was quite painful to give up on them.
But it is quite freeing to be able to finally say, "We really have no idea about X". Where X is just about anything at any distance from our system. :P

[paulbeaney]

A black hole actually expelling material has always made sense to me. If indeed they are just super dense blobs of material, there would be a point where the pressure inside the black hole would exceed its ability to hold on. It's like a pressure relief valve.

[VrataVenet]

Another great video Ben! Wonderful set of questions you covered with Yvette, and loved her little anecdote on her strangest day😂 the astronomers equivalent of winning the lottery? Who knows where this new discovery may go....

[larscarter]

Sometimes i think the internet is messing with me. New information, old information, believed information, informed information, shared information, trusted information, hawker information! Sometimes i think it tries to make me forget who i really am while i watch this stuff. I know its crazy type, paranoia probably. I always remember who's in control. I have a real life.

[cliffordmjordan]

Could the fact that a black hole is spinning relate to the time we see the burp. For example, if the burp occurs on the far side of the spin it would be ejected away from our point of observation vs if the ejection occurs on our side of the black hole. And could the timing of ejection be related to the size and rotational speed of the black hole?

[Norp-im]

Maybe she talked about it with regard to "outflow", but couldn't chunks of material in the accretion disk slowly make their way inward toward the black hole, and when they are pulled in the "burp" happens?

[MJWPub]

The 100% confidence in theory based upon observation from a single point of view at a distance of billions of light years is staggering; in any other field of science and engineering, you would run around and have a look at wants happening on the other side...