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.
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 ...
The Andromeda galaxy's family of satellite galaxies point towards the Milky Way, and nobody knows why.
A Hubble Space Telescope optical image of our nearest neighbor galaxy, Andromeda (M31), with an inset X-ray image of the active center made with the XMM-Newton observatory. The newly discovered ...
What’s the farthest object you can see with only your eyes? Unless you live under extremely dark skies unspoiled by light pollution, the answer is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), located some 2.5 million ...
This image from WISE displays the Andromeda galaxy's older stellar population in blue. The disk of the galaxy shows the aftermath of a collision with another galaxy, clear from the warp in the spiral ...