An international collaboration using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) has published an exceptionally detailed radio sky map, revealing 13.7 million cosmic sources and delivering the most complete ...

DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.

If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...

A new Star Wars theory reveals how Ahsoka is responsible for populating Earth with humans.

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...

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 star used to be one of the brightest star in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

A massive star brightened in infrared light, then vanished without exploding. Astronomers uncovered the quiet birth of a black hole.

Astronomers watched a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy vanish over a decade, providing rare evidence of a "failed ...

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly glow in infrared light as it sheds its outer layers and becomes wrapped in ...

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 ...