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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] 2 points 1 year ago

My guess is the event horizon has always been viewed as this perfectly spherical (or oblate spherical) construct - I bet it is much more messy than that. I bet the event horizon moves around and the movement allows for materials to be ejected.