Astronomers have discovered a black hole engaged in an epic stellar meal around 9 billion light-years away from us.
The supermassive black hole, which has a mass around 10 million times that of the sun, was seen shredding a star around nine times as massive as our star and feasting on its stellar remains. This is the largest star ever seen being destroyed in one of these gory "tidal disruption events," or "TDEs."
