went on to become a writer, penning an acclaimed autobiography, The Trouble with Cinderella: An Outline of Identity. He also wrote four novels and a collection of short stories. Shaw re-formed his band in the early 1980s and became the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got.

Shaw himself ran out of time on Dec. 30, 2004, dying of complications from diabetes. He was 94.Tom Russell (ICRAR)

Astronomers have discovered that the most ravenous black holes in the universe are more like 128-pound Japanese eating champion Takeru Kobayashi than they are like hungry (and huge) sumo wrestlers.

Scientists have spied a black hole that is sucking up gas from a nearby star at a rate ten times faster than what was previously believed to be physically possible because of a basic assumption about the "appetite" of such objects.

"It was generally believed the maximum speed at which a black hole could swallow gas and produce light was tightly determined by its size," International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research astronomer Dr Roberto Soria said in a release announcing the discovery, which was published today in the journal Nature.

But the black hole known as P13, located about