If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...

Astronomers tracked a star in Andromeda as it dimmed and vanished without the usual fiery explosion, offering rare clues to ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...

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

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - 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 ...

In the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark. Not in a blaze of glory.

Scientists have captured the moment a supergiant star collapses into a black hole, revealing the star's death in an incredible animation.