Comment on Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A white hole?

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  • Cascio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Cat: So, what is it?

    Kryten: I’ve never seen one before - no one has - but I’m guessing it’s a white hole.

    Rimmer: A white hole?

    Kryten: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the Universe; a white hole returns it.

    Lister: So, that thing’s spewing time…

    Lister: [donning his fur-lined hat] … back into the Universe?

    Kryten: Precisely. That’s why we’re experiencing these curious time phenomena on board.

    The Cat: So, what is it?

    Kryten: I’ve never seen one before - no one has - but I’m guessing it’s a white hole.

    Rimmer: A white hole?

    Kryten: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. A black hole sucks time and matter out of the Universe; a white hole returns it.

    Lister: [minus the hat] So, that thing’s spewing time…

    Lister: [donning his fur-lined hat, again] … back into the Universe?

    Kryten: Precisely. That’s why we’re experiencing these curious time phenomena on board.

    Lister: What time phenomena?

    Kryten: Like just then, when time repeated itself.

    The Cat: So, what is it?

    [Kryten, Rimmer, and Lister stare at Cat]

    The Cat: Only joking.

    -Red Dwarf

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    • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So what is it?

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A white hole is a theorized antithesis to a black hole. While a black hole sucks matter in and destroys it, a white hole seemingly creates new matter and sprays it into the universe.

    Afaik, we haven’t actually observed one before. It’s just a mathematical theory. But black holes used to be nothing more than theory, too.

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    • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So that thing is spewing time back in to the universe?

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