Friday, March 13, 2020: A new Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1589 reveals the galaxy’s bright central bulge, where a supermassive black hole is lurking in a group of tightly packed stars. The galaxy “was once the scene of a violent bout of cosmic hunger pangs,” Hubble astronomers said in a statement. Located 168 million light-years from Earth in the Taurus constellation, NGC 1589 was discovered by William Herschel in 1783. “As astronomers looked on, a poor, hapless star was seemingly torn apart and devoured by the ravenous supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy,” the Hubble team said. Now astronomers are using Hubble to look for any evidence of stellar debris that was ejected when the star ripped apart.