Physicists theorized before that when stars collapsed and became black holes they al suck in anything and everything around them with the only real difference between them being their size. However, now researchers say that black holes could theoretically act differently given the right conditions.
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00:00 There's still a ton we don't know about black holes, however a recent discovery has
00:08 revealed they might be even more complicated than we previously thought.
00:12 Physicists theorized before that when stars collapsed and became black holes, they all
00:15 sucked in anything and everything around them, with the only real difference between them
00:19 being their size.
00:20 However now researchers say that black holes could theoretically act differently given
00:24 the right conditions.
00:25 In binary black hole systems where two black holes are gobbling up everything around them,
00:29 they could ingest enough to become charged.
00:32 As we know, like electrically charged objects repel one another, and the same should be
00:36 true for black holes.
00:37 This could cause them to become more complicated, especially while attempting to view them from
00:41 hundreds of thousands or even millions or billions of light years away.
00:45 That's because a single black hole could theoretically possess multiple event horizons, and binary
00:49 black holes might appear to us as a single very large one.
00:52 The only problem with this new theory is that not a lot of it makes sense with regards to
00:55 current physical models, but black holes are strange and difficult to observe.
00:59 Meaning under just the right circumstances with just the right binary system, and when
01:03 specific conditions are met, it might just be possible.
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