The nearby star Betelgeuse is expected to explode as a supernova sometime in the cosmic near future, creating a spectacular ...
"Imagine if the star Betelgeuse suddenly disappeared. Everybody would lose their minds!" The post Scientists Intrigued as ...
Only one such event had been documented previously, a star recorded vanishing around 2010 in a galaxy 22 million light-years ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scientists sifting through archival data captured by NASA's former NEOWISE mission found an unusual star that quickly disappeared, fading to nothing ...
Scientists have captured the moment a supergiant star collapses into a black hole, revealing the star's death in an ...
NASA’s NEOWISE has allowed astronomers to get the best and most complete view of a star collapsing into a black hole ever recorded.