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Snack on a star in four easy steps!
1. Be a supermassive black hole ⚫
2. Catch a star that wanders too close & suck in its outer gas 🥤
3. Shred the star 🔪
4. Twist the star remnants into a donut shape that will eventually fall into the black hole 🍩
http://go.nasa.gov/3W8wBDY
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Hubble Finds Hungry Black Hole Twisting Captured Star Into Donut Shape

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star's final moments in detail as it gets gobbled up by a black hole.
Andrea Gianopoulos (NASA)
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