Watch a Black hole 'burping out' a 'spaghettified' star it devoured years ago

A cosmic titan has been illuminating the night sky with violent emissions since the black hole it devoured three years ago began burping out debris from its messy stellar meal.

Located in a galaxy 665 million light-years from Earth, the black hole was seen in October 2018 ripping apart a star that had strayed too close. Astronomers have seen many violent collisions between stars and greedy black holes, so the event itself didn't surprise them.

This tangle of spaghetti-like matter falling into the black hole causes it to heat up and emit a burst of light, which can be seen by astronomers from great distances. This stellar material is occasionally expelled back into space by the black hole. To put it another way, black holes are notoriously messy eaters.

This TDE, labelled AT2018hyz, is however odd in the following ways: The black hole is ejecting debris from its last meal, a star about a tenth the mass of the sun, even though it hasn't eaten anything else in a very long time.

This material is being ejected from the black hole at speeds of about half the speed of light, as calculated by Cendes and her team. TDEs, on the other hand, release this material at a speed of about 10% of the speed of light.

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[croatoan]

If it was 665 million light years away, this means this happened 665 million years ago. Perhaps this event is a clue for something unusual in the universe happening at that time.

[zombieowen]

Maybe black holes are the dealer, taking in cards and dealing new hands.

[Javed.Ahmed.Rasheed]

Meal, Burping, Vomit, feeding etc. are dramatic words same as for humans!!!

[prautes]

Space to a Black Hole is a giant "all you can eat" buffet.

[slackwellman]

I though anything that passed the event horizon could not escape. How is this possible? And why haven't I heard of it happening before? David Butler save me!

[mikeleday]

Soooo no one's gonna discuss how anything escapes 1.6 trillion g's of gravitational pull? We are just going to call it burping? Fucking christ

[richardmercer]

The potential for digestive humor is considerable...

[jeep]

It's funny how no matter how much they think they know about something it'll turn around and make them look stupid not too long ago they would tell you whatever goes into a black hole never comes back out wrongo

[dalelerette]

It seems strange. Magnetism is nothingness constrained by forces. When a star is consumed by a blackhole. it devours the material of the star, but the unconstrained nothingness of magnetism is separated and excited to the point of illumination, then spiraled out from the black hole. Nothing can escape the gravitational pull of a black hole. Yet we see the nothingness of illuminated magnetism being expelled from a black hole.

[deepakgurung]

Before they said nothing can escape black hole and nothing can travel faster than light. Now gas escapes the black hole 10 times the speed of light .

[quadrogong]

I thought nothing can escape a black hole…not even light? What’s up w that?

[TOPDadAlpha]

What I think about regarding this event is the amount of energy involved. It must be astronomical.

[taeboy]

Just a thought but could we be inside of a blackhole since everything moves slow in space. Since they say it’s thousands of them.

[sbacon]

what if it's not a black hole?
what if it's an advanced civilization ripping apart stars for raw materials?

[coalitea]

„God“ just wanted to take some hits on space gas or a line star dust.

[gailcastles]

I thought nothing could escape a black hole!

[Sublime_]

So.., I thought nothing could escape the hole... Is the universe alive or whats going one. Why is stuff coming out that went in?

[AstroReturnz]

I suspect that some black holes like that were a form of wormholes just hard to tell apart not ones that we could use of course and also when objects are close to a black hole the time on that object slows down supporting it in some ways

[eliinthewolverinestate]

A whirlpool pulls stuff in but at the center is a force pushing out. So many star that supposedly get sucked in only to be spat back out. Maybe it's a bubble of no matter. And what we are seeing can be explain by stuff going behind a bubble. Just like bubbles floating on earth reflect images. Pics of black holes look more like a lunar eclipse than anything else. So much for them sucking even light. If a black hole is a bubble of no matter light wouldn't be able to go through. So it would bend around like an image on a bubble does.

[obsessive]

Black holes like this remind me of 52-card pickup