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.

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.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•10 months ago

        The Cat: So, what is it?

        Kryten: I’ve never seen one before - no one has - but I’m guessing it’s a white hole.

        Rimmer: A white hole?

        Kryten: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the Universe; a white hole returns it.

        Lister: So, that thing’s spewing time…

        Lister: [donning his fur-lined hat] … back into the Universe?

        Kryten: Precisely. That’s why we’re experiencing these curious time phenomena on board.

        The Cat: So, what is it?

        Kryten: I’ve never seen one before - no one has - but I’m guessing it’s a white hole.

        Rimmer: A white hole?

        Kryten: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the Universe; a white hole returns it.

        Lister: [minus the hat] So, that thing’s spewing time…

        Lister: [donning his fur-lined hat, again] … back into the Universe?

        Kryten: Precisely. That’s why we’re experiencing these curious time phenomena on board.

        Lister: What time phenomena?

        Kryten: Like just then, when time repeated itself.

        The Cat: So, what is it?

        [Kryten, Rimmer, and Lister stare at Cat]

        The Cat: Only joking.

        -Red Dwarf

      • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️English
        3•10 months ago

        A white hole is a theorized antithesis to a black hole. While a black hole sucks matter in and destroys it, a white hole seemingly creates new matter and sprays it into the universe.

        Afaik, we haven’t actually observed one before. It’s just a mathematical theory. But black holes used to be nothing more than theory, too.

        Edit: I haven’t seen Red Dwarf in so long, I didn’t realize you were referencing it. 🤣