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Failing to go supernova, an Andromeda supergiant star quietly collapsed into a black hole
The star used to be one of the brightest star in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.
Astronomers have watched a dying star fail to explode as a supernova, instead collapsing into a black hole. The remarkable ...
Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly ...
Supernova 1987A appeared in the far-southern constellation of Doradus (the Swordfish), in which the Large Magellanic Cloud is ...
The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...
A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...
On April 10, 2024, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) detected first light from an explosion of a massive star with roughly 12 to 15 times the sun’s mass. Just 26 hours later, ...
That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion ...
An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...
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 ...
I was exploding with excitement to ask my friend Guy Worthey about supernovas. He’s an astronomer at Washington State University. He told me a supernova is a very energetic explosion in space. There ...
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