Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address.Today's Moment comes from Will Dunham of Reuters, who makes astrophysics accessible to his readers through use of metaphor!

A giant black hole displaying horrifying table manners has been caught in the act of guzzling a star in a galaxy 4 billion light-years away, scientists using an orbiting NASA telescope said on Tuesday.

NASA telescope sees black hole gulping remote star [Reuters]