New black hole study proves a 40 year old theory

A new study has been published that contradicts something that many people believe of black holes. One of the things that most people have heard about the black hole is that nothing can escape its gravitational pull, not even light. While that is true for light and other material in the immediate vicinity of the black hole, a bit further out in the disc of material that surrounds the black hole, some light does escape.

The study found that some the light gives in to the gravitational pull the black hole, turns back, and bounces off the disk of material and escapes the pull of the black hole. One scientist on the study says that the team observed light coming from very close to the black hole that is trying to escape but gets pulled back into the black hole like a boomerang. Scientist Riley Connors, the lead author of the study from Caltech, said this phenomenon was something predicted in the 1970s but hadn’t been shown until now.