The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the icy space rock meeting its fiery demise on Dec. 8th, 2015. According to Spaceweather.com, it belonged to the Kreutz-family of comets that stems from a "breakup of a single giant comet many centuries ago."
The supermassive black hole is 40 million times as massive as the sun and powers a quasar that existed 700 million years after the Big Bang.
The asteroid zoomed by Earth at a perfectly safe distance of around 1.8 million miles (2.9 kilometers).
Images show surprise changes to the spacecraft as it interacted with the atmosphere.