Massive star's gory 'death by black hole' is the biggest and brightest event of its kind Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole violently shredding and devouring a star nine times as massive as the sun. https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ziLUfcpZKdNodG7ttnHh3e.png https://www.space.com/black-hole-tde-at2023vto