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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.
Their research was guided by a prediction from the 1970s: if a star collapses directly into a black hole, it should briefly ...
He came up with a new one, called the Late-Transition Interacting Thawer (LTIT) model, which models how dark energy could "thaw" after a certain amount of time after the universe started and is slowly ...
An international team of astronomers has conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a recently discovered ...
Supernova 1987A appeared in the far-southern constellation of Doradus (the Swordfish), in which the Large Magellanic Cloud is ...
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World’s largest neutrino detector gets 650-sensor boost to track supernova blasts
The world’s largest neutrino detector just got even more powerful after scientists successfully deployed ...
There has been one other instance of a star mysteriously disappearing, a “failed supernova candidate” dubbed N6946-BH1 that ...
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 ...
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 ...
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