A Black Hole’s Diet
Incredible! While studying a distant galaxy, astronomers noticed a bright flare of X-rays coming from another galaxy that happened to be in their field of view. Upon closer look, they discovered that it was actually a black hole ‘eating up’ what they believe to be either an extremely large planet or a smaller brown dwarf. Fortunately for the object, it only lost about 10% of its mass and was able to move past the black hole before it was completely sucked in. What is so amazing is that this is the first time anything like this has been observed. It is also noteworthy to recognize that this must be one huge planet/star for it not to be captured by a black hole. You can see this in action in the video that I included above. You can also continue reading about this discovery in the article where I found this information here!
Susannah 
This is very cool and I had not heard about this. I did not know that it was possible for a black hole to only absorb parts of objects. I thought once a black hole got a hold of something, it was gone. Its awesome that we were able to observe this. Cool video too!
Wow. This is a fascinating video. What is especially interesting to me is how the planet/star did not completely get sucked in by this black hole. So much has been talked about regarding Black Holes, but it is quite cool to actually hear that tangible footage has been obtained that displays the enigmatic nature of black holes. Black holes remain a topic of considerable noise today, and I don’t expect this to be the last witness of interactions with black-holes in the news!