https://www.newscientist.com/article/2171707-weve-seen-a-gigantic-black-hole-tear-a-star-in-half-and-eat-it/

In 2005, a team noticed a bright flare of infrared light in a pair of colliding galaxies 134 million light-years away. The source turned out to be a star falling into a gigantic black hole that weighs 20 million times the mass of our sun.

While a few similar events have been seen before …