"It's really difficult to overstate how bad we are at finding intermediate mass black holes." ...
DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.
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 ...
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 event was first recorded in 2014, when a Nasa space telescope noticed a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy slowly ...
Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly ...
The allegations have doubled in the “double-touching” curling controversy involving Team Canada at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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 ...
Edgecombe's performance was a timely reminder of the 20-year-old's value as a scorer in Philadelphia this season.
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 ...
A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...