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

Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.

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

Several telescopes used to observe the supernova SN Zwicky which was magnified nearly 25 times by a foreground galaxy acting ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composite gri image of NGC 4388 showing SN 2023fyq, captured by the Las Cumbres Observatory on August 11, 2023. White tick marks ...

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

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