A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

Indian astronomer Kishalay De led study revealed one of the clearest cases of a massive star collapsing directly into a black hole without a supernova, based on NASA NEOWISE data.

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants collapsing to form an exceptionally dense ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed that the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed more intensely with infrared light for around ...

Astronomers are used to dramatic endings. When a massive star dies, it usually explodes ...

The star used to be one of the brightest star in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composite gri image of NGC 4388 showing SN 2023fyq, captured by the Las Cumbres Observatory on August 11, 2023. White tick marks ...