Spaghettified

 

There may be many ways to end one's existence, but death by spaghetti may not be the most attractive.

Actually, I mean death by spaghettification.  And unless you eat really, really way too much pasta, you're probably safe.

But stars that wander too close to a black hole aren't safe.  For the process of spaghettification describes how a star gets destroyed by the massive gravity of a black hole.

And this has just been observed, and set a record for being the closest to Earth that it has ever been observed.

Witness The Very Last Scream of Light From a Star Devoured by a Black Hole

"Although catching a stellar death-by-black-hole is uncommon, astronomers have observed enough by now to figure out the broad strokes of how it happens. When a star ventures too close, the immense tidal force of the black hole - the product of its gravitational field - first stretches and then pulls the star so hard that it's torn apart. 

 This tidal disruption event (TDE) releases a brilliant flare of light before the debris of the disintegrated star disappears beyond the black hole's event horizon. But that flare of light is often at least partially obscured by a cloud of dust, which makes studying the finer details difficult. 

 The new TDE, first spotted in September of last year [warning:  highly technical!] and named AT2019qiz, is now helping a team led by astronomer Matt Nicholl of the University of Birmingham in the UK shed light on the origin of this dust."

Pretty good animation of spaghettification  (also in the article at the first link):