Only one such event had been documented previously, a star recorded vanishing around 2010 in a galaxy 22 million light-years ...

A massive star in the nearby Andromeda galaxy has simply disappeared. Some astronomers believe that it's collapsed in on itself and formed a black hole.

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

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 ...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...

In 2014, a NASA telescope observed as the infrared light emitted by a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy gradually grew brighter. The star glowed ...

Scientists have captured the moment a supergiant star collapses into a black hole, revealing the star's death in an ...

The formation of a black hole can be quite a violent event, with a massive dying star blowing up and some of its remnants ...

"We are not just replacing the black hole with a dark object; we are proposing that the supermassive central object and the ...

Researchers believe they have found the signal of a pulsar, the ancient core of a rapidly spinning star, at the center of the Milky Way, near a supermassive black hole. This discov ...