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Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why
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You're correct, but so is the person above. These stars are not (entirely) crossing the event horizon. Lots of material is left orbiting around the edge forming a disc. It's this disc, the formation of it, and the ejection of material from it, that's relevant here.