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cybercuzco t1_is2kpvi wrote

Reply to comment by mossadnik in ‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star by mossadnik

The exit velocity is .5c but I wonder how close to c this material got. We could be seeing time dilation effects. Presumably as it comes out of the gravity well its going to slow down, so if they see it going half the speed of light now, it must have been going really close to the speed of light at closest approach

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jedrt-theloser t1_is3lgvc wrote

Could the ejection be caused by a rotating black hole?

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cybercuzco t1_is3m04a wrote

All black holes rotate, you would have to create one artificially to get it to be non-rotational

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