NASA telescopes have captured a black hole destroying a "wandering star".
It's hoped the observation will help scientists understand complex black hole feeding behaviours.
"Located about 250 million light-years from Earth in the centre of another galaxy, it was the fifth-closest example of a black hole destroying a star ever observed," NASA said.
"Once the star had been thoroughly ruptured by the black hole’s gravity, astronomers saw a dramatic rise in high-energy X-ray light around the black hole.
"This indicated that as the stellar material was pulled toward its doom, it formed an extremely hot structure above the black hole called a corona."
NASA said it takes weeks or months for the process to be completed.
The space agency released an artist's rendition of what its telescopes saw.
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