Stars Survive Black Hole Repeats | Science News

Science News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 23, 2026 · 1m

Stars aren’t just getting shredded by black holes—they’re surviving, returning, and putting on dimmer light shows each time. New research reveals the secret: these stars were already spinning insanely fast before they got caught in the black hole’s grip. That rapid spin limits how much material they shed during each close pass, making their cosmic fireworks fade over time. Scientists now think this spin might stem from a “Hills mechanism,” where a binary star system was torn apart near a black hole, flinging one star away and capturing the other—already spinning wildly—into a tight orbit…