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scientists have observed a star being spaghettified then swallowed by a supermassive spinning black hole the event dubbed ASAS sn1 5ih named after the all-sky automated search for supernovae was first believed to be a giant supernova scientists continue to observe the bright light for the next 10 months concluding that it was a tidal disruption event or TDE the tidal disruption event is the destruction of a star by a rapidly rotating supermassive black hole as the lower mass star passed by the supermassive black hole it was sucked in by the gravitational pull and then stretched out like spaghetti until it was ripped apart causing the super luminous event originally observed artist's rendering show what the TDE event might have looked like when the smaller sun-like star passed too closely to the black hole as the star is ripped apart massive pieces of star bits collide with each other you could read more about the tidal disruption event in Eric Mack's article at sea Netcom