A star in another galaxy was ripped apart by the black hole's intense gravity 2 billion years ago and recently witnessed by scientists. 'It turned into this really thin piece of spaghetti,' one said.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.