So, a star may have eaten a black hole and exploded

What happens when a massive star eats a black hole or neutron star?

Theoretical models show it explodes, epically, but only after a series of events that cause the star to eruptively eject its outer layers before the compact object plunges into the star's core, disrupts it, and creates one of the most energetic events in the Universe: a supernova.

Or so the models show. But now, for the first time, astronomers may have seen an example of exactly such an event, and I am not one bit ashamed to s...