A recent news article on SPACE.com provides fascinating new information on the true dietary intake of black holes.  Using information gathered from three space-based X-ray telescopes gathered over the course of about a decade, scientists were able to provide the first solid evidence of a star being destroyed and at least partially consumed by a black hole.  The idea that black holes could draw in then destroy and consume celestial bodies such as stars has long been a strongly held belief in scientific circles, but little proof has been available to strengthen that belief.  "This is one of the Holy Grails of astronomy," Alex Filippenko, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said at a briefing at NASA headquarters.  You can read the entire article and view artist illustrations of the evidence here.