Distant Supermassive Black Hole Discovered Savoring Its Meal, Bite by Bite

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Distant Supermassive Black Hole Discovered Savoring Its Meal, Bite by Bite

Black holes are notoriously destructive to stars near them. Astronomers often see flashes representing the death throes of stars collapsing past the event horizon, a black hole they got too close to. However, in rare instances, a star isn't wholly swallowed by its gigantic neighbor and is pulled into an orbit, causing a much slower death, which would probably be more painful if stars could feel anything.A new study using X-ray results fro…