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

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

A star in the Andromeda galaxy ran out of nuclear fuel and collapsed into a black hole, without first violently exploding in a supernova. For the first time scientists have studied this process in ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Scientists watched as a star, once one of the brightest in the Andromeda galaxy, simply winked out of existence. They have a ...