A 3D model of a black hole's erratic feeding pattern reveals a potential explanation for the bizarre behavior of quasars with a dimmer switch.
This disk split was caused by the rotating black hole twisting the spacetime around it – a general-relativistic process called"When [black holes] rotate, they drag the space around them like a giant carousel and force it to rotate as well,"Frame-dragging has a stronger pull on the material
orbiting closer to the black hole and a weaker pull on the material orbiting further out.At first, friction and pressure keep the disk together. But, eventually, the twisting of spacetime by the black hole causes the inner disk to break off into a separate disk that is smaller and therefore easier to move.
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