Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable ...

A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy has vanished. Over nearly a decade, astronomers watched as the brilliant supergiant faded from view until it became completely invisible. The star didn’t explode ...

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 the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark. Not in a blaze of glory.

One of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy quietly collapsed into a black hole without any of the fanfare of a spectacular supernova. What makes this startling discovery even more remarkable ...

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

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

An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...

Astronomers have strengthened long-standing predictions that massive runaway stars could have originated in binary pairs, and ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

"The best-case scenario for axions is Fermi catches a supernova. It's just that the chance of that is small." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...