Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.

Despite this enormous size, the black hole is actually accreting–or eating–gas at a very low rate. According to the team, it is only accreting about 100 times below its theoretical maximum limit.

Narrator: Now, before you freak out, you should know that our planet isn't about to get sucked up and reappear in another galaxy. If there is a black hole, it's at least 20 times farther from ...

The primitive black hole, however, doesn’t currently possess a voracious appetite to match its immensity. At the moment, it’s only accreting the gas it needs to grow at about 100 times below the ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic objects in the universe.

This is the gargantuan black hole that lives at the centre of our ... To put that in context, Mercury, the innermost planet in our Solar System, orbits between roughly 40 million km and 70 million ...