It is extremely rare and surprising to spot a supermassive black hole snacking on a star. An astrophysicist from Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) said the black hole was seen ejecting massive energy after swallowing a star.

The astrophysicist, Dr Gemma Anderson, said watching a black hole gulping stars in which the star is getting ripping apart isn’t an everyday event. When a black hole is forced to consume large amount of gas, plasma-elementary particles’ fast jet in magnetic field runs off from the black hole rim, as per the astrophysicist.

Dr Sjoert van Velzen from The Johns Hopkins University visited Rob Fender’s team in Great Britain to discuss the event. According to van Veizen, it was the first time when such kind of stellar destruction was spotted by an astronomer.

Dr Miller-Jones said the All-sky Automated Survey for Supernovae was the first to pick up the rare event. It showed the black hole is capable of releasing a flare at a very high speed.

According to van Velzen, “The destruction of a star by a black hole is beautifully complicated, and far from understood. Finding more of these rare events may further our understanding of the processes that allow black holes to launch such spectacular outflows”.

As per science, formation of black hole occurs when stars of a particular size reach the end of their life. The newly observed event took place about 300 million light-years away from earth.