<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.714285714; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div id="attachment_3414" class="alignnone wp-caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; width: 910px;"><div class=""><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.714285714;"><div class=""><div class="entry-content" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.714285714;"><div id="attachment_3414" class="alignnone wp-caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 100%; width: 910px;"><div class=""><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; width: 910.65625px; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;"><div class="pull-right col-xs-12 share-wrapper col-sm-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right !important; width: 303.546875px; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; color: inherit; font-size: 24px;" class=""><div class="col-xs-2 col-sm-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; width: 75.875px; position: relative; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;"><a download="pia20027_updated.jpg" href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia20027_updated.jpg" data-bindattr-1320="1320" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial initial;" class=""></a></div></h3></div></div><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">This illustration shows a glowing stream of material from a star, disrupted as it was being devoured by a supermassive black hole. The feeding black hole is surrounded by a ring of dust. This dust was previously illuminated by flares of high-energy radiation from the feeding black hole, and is now shown re-radiating some of that energy.</font></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div><div style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 14px;" class=""><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><br class=""></em></div></div></div></div></body></html>