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.

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

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 object with gravity so ​strong not ...

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

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

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 ...

The star used to be one of the brightest star in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

Incredible picture of the Milky Way wins photography competition - ‘Ancient Light’ by Michael Harris was awarded the top ...

The contest was held to mark the 10th anniversary of the park being named as an International Dark Sky Reserve.