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 ...

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

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

What can imaging supernovae (plural for supernova) explosions teach astronomers about their behavior and physical characteristics? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to ...

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 ...