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A black hole fell into a star – then ate its way out again (www.newscientist.com)
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A black hole that was eaten by a star seems to have gotten revenge by consuming the star from the inside, producing a gamma-ray burst spotted about 9 billion light-years from Earth.

The burst, called GRB 250702B, was first spotted by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope in July. Such bursts are bright flashes caused by jets fired out from energetic events, such as massive stars collapsing into black holes or neutron stars merging, and they usually last no more than a few minutes.

GRB 250702B, however, lasted for 25,000 seconds – or about 7 hours – making it the longest-known gamma-ray burst. Scientists had struggled to explain it, but Eliza Neights at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre in the US and her colleagues now suggest an unusual and rare possibility.

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[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Greatly simplifying, yes.

The point is the vast majority of stellar scale events are crazy slow compared to what we'd normally assume, because stars are insanely huge. 7 hours is still a flash in the pan.

The black hole didn't just drop straight in. The sun was undoubtedly orbiting the black hole. It'd take time for the matter to even get close enough. 7 hours sounds crazy fast to me.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

If minutes is normal for a gamma ray burst, hours is an order of magnitude longer. Still, flash in the pan indeed! Lucky we caught it.