Supernova went down last Saturday, and as expected, details have already clawed their way online. While we don’t have a full ...
This is a massive star that exploded 35,000 years ago, and the deep-sky image just won an award – a first in the prestigious ...
Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...
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.
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 object with gravity so ​strong not ...
The star used to be one of the brightest star in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
The contest was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the park being named as an International Dark Sky Reserve. | ITV News Meridian ...
The event was first recorded in 2014, when a Nasa space telescope noticed a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy slowly ...
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 ...
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 ...
In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.