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.

  • @Cascio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4•1 year 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