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 ...

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

A team of astronomers led by the Flatiron Institute’s Kishalay De discovered that a star in the Andromeda Galaxy disappeared without going supernova, and instead collapsed directly into a black hole.

A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta ...

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A massive star in a nearby galaxy that reached the end of its life appears to have vanished rather than blown up, forming a black hole in what astronomers think is a rare way. The most common black ...

Astronomers have caught a massive star exploding just moments after the universe emerged from the cosmic dark ages, shedding light on how the first stars were born and how they die. When stars run out ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The newly detected supernova, named SN Eos, exploded when the universe was ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of black hole binaries." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory releases its longest-spanning video of X-ray data yet. Credit: NASA / CXC / SAO / Pan-STARRS Astronomers have turned a famous star explosion into a 25‑year time‑lapse, ...

Remote workers at DreamWorks Animation, feature production staffers at Netflix Animation Studios and production workers on NBCUniversal’s “Ted” have voted to unionize with the Animation Guild (TAG) in ...