Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading ...
"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – ...
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Astronomers watch a star in Andromeda vanish as it collapses into a black hole
Astronomers watching the Andromeda Galaxy have now seen something they had only theorized before: a massive star that simply vanished, apparently collapsing straight into a black hole instead of ...
An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...
A dazzling new Hubble image peels back the layers of the mysterious Egg Nebula, a rare and fleeting phase in a Sun-like ...
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Astronomers witness a star's direct collapse into a black hole in incredibly rare view
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 ...
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