Spit out

Mini solar flares produced in the lab have shown how the sun fires out particles and X-rays at high speed.

The sun regularly spits out solar flares when arcs of plasma, called coronal loops, break. We don’t fully understand how they are made, but one idea is that these loops are twisted like braided rope, in a fractal pattern, where smaller and smaller structures of braids form as you look more closely, says Paul Bellan at the California Institute of Technology. These small braids make it easier to break the loops apart and release X-rays as part of a solar flare.
–New Scientist