A bright star in the Andromeda galaxy appears to have simply vanished. After a dramatic mid-infrared flare in 2014, the ...

Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly ...

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

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 ...

In the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, a massive star bright enough to stand out for years has gone dark. Not in a blaze of glory.

A faint flash of infrared light in the Andromeda galaxy was emitted at the birth of a stellar-mass black hole – according to a team of astronomers in the US. Kishalay De at Columbia University and the ...

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 ...

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on ...

Astronomers discover a star in Andromeda that may have collapsed into a black hole instead of exploding as a supernova.

University of Arizona astronomers have taken the sharpest, most detailed infrared pictures ever of the Andromeda galaxy. They show that our neighbor spiral galaxy is a surprisingly disturbed and ...