Do black holes really suck in matter?

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Black holes can swallow matter, and they grow by accreting gas, dust and even the occasional star. But are they the vacuum-mouthed monsters they are often presented to be?

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[skynr13]

They say nothing can escape from a Black Hole, but apparently half of a star gets sucked into the Event Horizon and the other half to the accretion disk and possibly half of that gets ejected in the Black Hole's jet. So this demonstrates that anyone falling towards a Black Hole has about a 25% chance of surviving. Anyone for a little Black Hole Russian Roulette?