"bright as a hundred billion suns..." (amazing astronomical event of a star devoured by a black hole, discovered by a telescope on the island I live on)

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http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/black-hole-eats-star-spews-light-beam/#

The black hole is a million times more massive than our Sun.

This was the article today in our local newspaper that tipped me off to this: http://westhawaiitoday.com/sections/news/local-news/astronomers-witness-star-being-consumed.html