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

An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...

Astronomers combing through years of images collected by the NEOWISE mission have found the clearest known evidence of a star converting directly to a black hole, without passing through the supernova ...

It is easy to observe when stars explode in a supernova and become a black hole. It is different when they simply collapse.

Only one such event had been documented previously, a star recorded vanishing around 2010 in a galaxy 22 million light-years ...

Kishalay De, an alumnus of St James’ School and currently at Columbia University, has helped solve the mystery, showing that the star collapsed directly into a black hole — without the usual supernova ...

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 ...

"This provides observational evidence of black hole formation in real time, suggests that many black holes may form without ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed as the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed ...

Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable sighting is the most complete observational record ever made of a star's ...

A watched pot never boils and love happens when you least expect it -- turns out, the same logic applies to capturing a star ...

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