Astronomers report a supergiant star in the Andromeda Galaxy, M31-2014-DS1, collapsed directly into a black hole without a supernova, confirming predictions of failed stellar explosions.
DS1, collapsed into a black hole without exploding, revealing how stars die in silent “failed supernova” events.
Astronomers watched a massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy vanish over a decade, providing rare evidence of a "failed ...
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 ...
A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen ...
For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...
An international study led from Groningen resolves, through computational simulations, a decades-old enigma about the anomalous motion of neighboring galaxies, revealing a flat and extended ...
The newly released Andromeda image represents a decade of careful tracking and uninterrupted observation. Scientists expected a crisp portrait of the neighboring galaxy, but the final scan revealed ...
It's been 35 years since Hubble came online, so in honor of the intrepid telescope's 35th anniversary, we've put together this gallery of our favorite Hubble images. The Hubble Space Telescope was ...
Historically, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was a subject of extensive debate, initially considered a "nebulous smear" and later central to the "island universe" hypothesis proposing its status as an ...
A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...
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