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.

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 ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

NASA’s NEOWISE archival data tracks a massive star in Andromeda fading quietly into a black hole, providing detailed observations of stellar collapse and gas expulsion from 2005 to 2023.

The now–deceased star, dubbed M31–2014–DS1, was located around 2.5 million light–years from Earth in the neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy. In 2014, NASA telescopes recorded the distant star brightening ...