"It's really difficult to overstate how bad we are at finding intermediate mass black holes." ...
Astronomers discover a star in Andromeda that may have collapsed into a black hole instead of exploding as a supernova.
DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.
If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...
Digital Camera World on MSN
It looks like a jellyfish, but it's not – it's the remains of an exploding star. This photo looks straight out of Star Trek!
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 competition ...
Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...
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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 is that it collapsed directly into a black hole without producing a ...
Hubble captures a dying star cracking open the dazzling, dust-filled Egg Nebula in a rare cosmic transformation.
The event was first recorded in 2014, when a Nasa space telescope noticed a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy slowly ...
A massive star brightened in infrared light, then vanished without exploding. Astronomers uncovered the quiet birth of a black hole.
Astronomers watched a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy vanish over a decade, providing rare evidence of a "failed ...
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