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__Raptor__ t1_jdyk5eg wrote

Reply to comment by Postnificent in Scientists discover supermassive black hole that now faces Earth by x3Smiley

You cant. Nothing escapes the gravity of a black hole. Not light, not energy, not even time.

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Postnificent t1_je35ubz wrote

You do realize that is still a theory? Problem is we don’t have actual local black holes to throw things into to test the theory. We have recently learned some black holes spit stars out so some things escape sometimes and we won’t fully understand them for a long time.

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__Raptor__ t1_je3cukh wrote

where the heck did you learn that???

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Postnificent t1_je581rm wrote

Hells bells, that one was on CNN among other places. The fact is we think we know all these things about space and all we know is what we observe vs what a couple guys guessed far before space travel was possible. That’s not facts, facts are observable. The theory was nothing escapes, the fact is this is how stars are made…

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__Raptor__ t1_je7gf8o wrote

That is not how stars are made. A black hole is a star corpse.

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Postnificent t1_jea3f63 wrote

Now you aren’t ignoring me, you are ignoring astronomers, astrophysicists and scientists. What we think and “know” are two different things. You keep presenting theory as fact. Science much?

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Adeldor t1_jeac70g wrote

Beyond the possibility of Hawking radiation, all current understanding has it that nothing can cross back out from a black hole's event horizon.

And /u/__Raptor__ is correct. Black holes certainly don't "spit stars out." In fact, large star life cycles end with black holes. If CNN said otherwise, they're quite wrong, perhaps misunderstanding orbital ejection of objects outside the event horizon - a phenomenon common to all multi-body orbiting systems, not just black holes.

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Postnificent t1_jead2j1 wrote

As I told him you can go do your own research. Space is dynamic in the fact that our understanding of it changes almost daily at this point. We are constantly learning new things. Just because you haven’t learned the new information doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Imagine the concept that we don’t know everything. Because we don’t. We think lots of things, doesn’t mean they are correct. I’ve been tired of this conversation. It’s obvious that I am not on the same wavelength as the rest of this thread. I learned a lot about this particular Reddit and the experience was the opposite of positive. Congratulations to everyone who participated, you definitely helped me formulate an opinion about this place.

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