DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.
Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's ...
Astronomers have puzzled for decades over how massive elliptical galaxies appeared so early in cosmic history. The standard ...
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 ...
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.
The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...
Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views ever of a massive star dying—not in a dramatic supernova explosion, but ...
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