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 ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s that theorized that when a star underwent direct collapse, it would leave ...

For the very first time, astronomers have captured a radio signal emitted by a very specific type of stellar explosion. This ...

Kishalay De, an alumnus of St James’ School and currently at Columbia University, has helped solve the mystery, showing that the star collapsed directly into a black hole — without the usual supernova ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star ...

Merger of two neutron stars in the aftermath of a supernova may have been observed for the first time, though questions ...

The nearby star Betelgeuse is expected to explode as a supernova sometime in the cosmic near future, creating a spectacular ...

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This artist's animation shows a hypothe sized event known as a superkilonova . Initially, a massive star explodes in a supernova, which generates elements like carbon and iron. In the aftermath, two ...