WILL WE BE EATEN?
Despite the common belief, black holes don’t actually suck in material, instead just capturing matter that ventures too close to them. Black holes pick up gas and dust in their vicinity, surrounding them in an accretion disc that gradually ‘feeds’ matter in. When this happens, the violent conditions in the accretion disc create powerful emissions and jets from an area that’s called an active galactic nucleus (AGN). Sgr A* isn’t currently swallowing enough matter to power an AGN, and a star or other object would have to hit it almost directly to be consumed.