Scientists Have Found a Huge Black Hole Near Milky Way. Should We Worry?

In 2017, the Very Large Array Radio Telescope located in the plains of New Mexico detected radio bursts in a star-forming galaxy that lies five hundred million light-years away from us. The bursts happened in a binary star system where one of the stars had once turned into a black hole. It sank to the star's outer layers, which made it emit a tremendous amount of gas and dust. And when the black hole swallowed up the star’s core, gravitational forces triggered energy flow in the star’s layers. And that's precisely what we saw on Earth.

That was how a dying star warned us of a terrible danger – Space Cannibalism. These events took place far away from Earth, but is it a rare occasion in outer space? Who might be the one to attack us? And is it possible to get away from space cannibals?