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'Vanishing' stars may be turning into black holes without going supernova, new study hints
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoStars that vanish from the sky may be collapsing directly into black holes without going supernova...
Star Skips Supernova Stage, Collapses Directly Into a Black Hole
ExtremeTech· 5 days agoMost of us are familiar with the term "supernova," or the process by which a star collapses under its own gravity and produces a violent explosion. This ...
How many stars in the Milky Way die each year?
LiveScience· 1 day agoWhen you gaze up at the stars, you see the same constellations that the ancient Greeks, and even the early hunter-gatherers, did. According to James De...
Hundreds of Massive Stars Have Simply Disappeared
Universe Today· 3 days agoIn the last 70 years however, there seems to be a number of massive stars that are just disappearing! According to stellar evolution models, they should...
Weird system shows stars can die quietly
Futurity· 3 days agoThe study of an unusual binary star system has resulted in convincing evidence that massive stars can completely collapse and become black holes without a supernova ...
The 8 most extraordinary JWST images of 2024, so far
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAnd 2024 has been no different. This year, JWST has already measured “hot Jupiter,” captured the birth of stars, found evidence of a neutron star in...
This telescope can observe stars, satellites and more during the day. But how?
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoThis activity, believed to be the result of a mass ejection of material into space that formed a...
Massive Magnetic Stars Detected Outside The Milky Way For The First Time
IFLScience· 3 days agoThe Sun has a magnetic field, and when this gets twisted it can lead to sunspots, whose effects the...
Vanishing Without a Trace: Why Stars Mysteriously Disappear From the Night Sky
SciTechDaily· 4 days agoAstrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen help explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars...
I’m an astrophysicist mapping the universe with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory − clear,...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoNASA/CXC & J. Vaughan When a star is born or dies, or when any other very energetic phenomenon...