The world of astronomy is agog
at the latest revelation of a gigantic
Black Hole ferociously tearing a star
a multiplicity of times larger than our own
to shreds of non-existence. True the
sum of the parts of that star were
summarily consumed while bursts of
radiation so bright they obscured the
light of surrounding stars in the vast
reaches of the universe Earth's most
powerful telescopes discerned, documenting
the end of a star that had wandered too
close to the irresistible gravitational pull of
the ravenous beast waiting, like a trap-door
spider to subsume all in its path. The
imagery as fresh as yesterday. No word
nor will there ever be whether livable
planets orbited that star, whether its
inhabitants were going about their lives
when instantly the source of their existence
expired and so too, dismally, would they.
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