Black Hole Wakes Up, Torments and Eats a Planet

Black Hole Wakes Up, Torments and Eats a Planet : Discovery News: "Astronomers have watched the sudden brightening of a galaxy and realized it can mean only one thing: a supermassive black hole has “woken up” and feasted after a long period of hibernation. Technically, though, the black hole was always ‘awake’; a large planetary body actually drifted too close and felt the behemoth’s gravitational wrath."