Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...

Astronomers watching the Andromeda Galaxy have now seen something they had only theorized before: a massive star that simply vanished, apparently collapsing straight into a black hole instead of ...

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

A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like ...

Hubble has captured its clearest view yet of the closest pre-planetary nebula, dubbed Egg Nebula, a dying Sun-like star ...

Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views ever of a massive star dying—not in a dramatic supernova explosion, but ...

NASA’s NEOWISE archival data tracks a massive star in Andromeda fading quietly into a black hole, providing detailed observations of stellar collapse and gas expulsion from 2005 to 2023.

Only one such event had been documented previously, a star recorded vanishing around 2010 in a galaxy 22 million light-years ...

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The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...