The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded

Yum, long noodle-like stars

Astronomers have finally figured out what the peculiar object known as "G2" orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is: a behemoth star created from the merger of two binary stars being stretched by the extreme tidal forces around the black hole."