Black Holes Regurgitate 'Spitballs' After Devouring Stars

Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - 15:11 in Astronomy & Space

When a black hole devours a star, it spews planet-size "spitballs" of regurgitated gas tumbling through the galaxy — and some of these globs can come within a few hundred light-years of Earth, new research shows.

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