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 ...
An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...
Supernova 1987A appeared in the far-southern constellation of Doradus (the Swordfish), in which the Large Magellanic Cloud is ...
In A Nutshell A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy faded by more than 10,000 times over a decade and vanished from view, ...
A mysterious cosmic explosion linked to gravitational waves may reveal a previously unknown type of supernova event - a ...
Kishalay De, an alumnus of St James’ School and currently at Columbia University, has helped solve the mystery, showing that ...
This is a massive star that exploded 35,000 years ago, and the deep-sky image just won an award – a first in the prestigious ...
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 ...
DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.
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 object with gravity so ​strong not ...
The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...