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fungussa t1_is19lof wrote

Isn't a black hole only able to emit Hawking radiation and not able to eject matter?

 

EDIT: I've just seen this comment, by the paper's lead author:

> What we think happened is this material was in an accretion disc surrounding the black hole after it was unbound. In 20% of cases you then see a radio outflow at the part where it’s torn apart, but in this case we have really good radio limits that this didn’t happen then (ie, didn’t see anything). Then after ~750 days for whatever reason this outflow began…

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Chimpbot t1_is1dx79 wrote

As with anything else, these rules are only rules until we find out that they may be incorrect.

Right now, we might have an example of a puking black hole.

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