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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Astronomers are used to dramatic endings. When a massive star dies, it usually explodes ...

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

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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The event was first recorded in 2014, when a Nasa space telescope noticed a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy slowly ...

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...