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.

However, despite its gigantic size, scientists spotted that the black hole was eating the gas it needs to grow at an extremely slow rate, essentially making it dormant - meaning 'asleep'!

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.

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