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Astronomers have discovered that black holes can burp up 'ghost stars'
- GW150914 8y agoSweet fuck, that’s the worst and least informative title I’ve ever seen! None of it is accurate, all of it is misleading. What can happen is that a white dwarf (which is not a star, but a stellar remnant) can be sufficiently heated and compressed by a close approach to a black hole that ignition occurs. No “burping” involved, and the fusion is not a lasting event. Black holes do not metaphorically or otherwise “burp up” anything, certainly not whole stars. Sorry for the rage, but I just hate bad pop sci.