Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly ...

In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, ...

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 ...

Supernova 1987A appeared in the far-southern constellation of Doradus (the Swordfish), in which the Large Magellanic Cloud is ...

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 ...

An international research team, including Kishalay De from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), discovered ...

Scientists have used a novel new approach to discover the potential origins of the sun goddess particle Amaterasu, the second ...

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 ...

Astronomers discover a star in Andromeda that may have collapsed into a black hole instead of exploding as a supernova.

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

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

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