Black holes might devour stars much more often than we thought

Like, 100 times more NASA, ESA, STScI-PRC14-41a Small Galaxy, Big Hole Most galaxies in the universe have at least one thing in common: supermassive black holes tend to sit in their centers, silently gorging on interstellar gas and dust and obliterating anything that comes within range of their event horizon. But scientists know very little about…