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Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why (www.livescience.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh that's cool. If her colleague is right, they found a natural particle collider. It would have many times the energy of the LHC too

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Many times is a severe understatement. A supernova is also many times more powerful than a firecracker.

Could black hole near misses by stars possibly have fused some elements which novas can't explain?