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 ...

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

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

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

A stellar black hole is one that’s created from the gravitational collapse of particularly massive stars, typically greater than eight solar masses. For context, one solar mass is about equivalent to ...

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

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

In 2014, a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy began glowing brighter in infrared light, then slowly faded from view. Nearly a decade later, astronomers say they have identified the event as the ...

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 ...

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.

An unusual tidal disruption event spotted by astronomers may be the result of an elusive intermediate mass black hole ripping apart a star.