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by tmhn2 810 days ago
In that usage the object (football) ends up in the state of spiralling. So the HN title would, strictly speaking, mean that the magnetic fields are causing the black hole to spiral, which isn't right.

It's probably sort of being mixed up with the transitive verb "to circle", which goes the other way, with the subject ending up in a state of circling.