Jets From Black Holes Cause Stars To Explode, Hubble Reveals
Black hole jets, which spew near-light-speed particle beams, can trigger nearby white dwarf stars to explode by igniting hydrogen layers on their surfaces. "We don't know what's going on, but it's just a very exciting finding," said Alec Lessing, an astrophysicist at Stanford University and lead aut...
28 Sep 06:00 · science.slashdot.org