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.
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Colossal star 13x heavier than sun vanishes without a sound, leaves black hole
A massive star roughly 2.5 million light-years away in the Andromeda Galaxy has quietly disappeared, and the best explanation ...
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Failing to go supernova, an Andromeda supergiant star quietly collapsed into a black hole
The star used to be one of the brightest star in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
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 glow in infrared light as it sheds its outer layers and becomes wrapped in ...
A massive star brightened in infrared light, then vanished without exploding. Astronomers uncovered the quiet birth of a black hole.
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