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 ...
Astronomers combing through years of images collected by the NEOWISE mission have found the clearest known evidence of a star converting directly to a black hole, without passing through the supernova ...
DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.
Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...
Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views ever of a massive star dying—not in a dramatic supernova explosion, but ...
The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big ...