Stars that vanish from the sky may be collapsing directly into black holes without going supernova first, a new study of a bizarre binary star system suggests. When you purchase through links on ...

The research suggests that these stars might be collapsing directly into black holes due to their incredible mass. This process would cause them to disappear instantly without leaving any trace.

The findings could explain the disappearance of dozens of stars over the past century ... Meanwhile, the collapsing core forms a compact object. This object is often a spinning neutron star ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Out in the universe lie dead stellar remnants called neutron stars, and these stars ... so-called Chandrasekhar limit), collapsing under its own gravity.

A star that mysteriously ... tears the star apart. Some stars might be so massive that the shock wave doesn’t have enough oomph to push against the onrush of collapsing star stuff.

This dying red giant had only recently mysteriously dimmed its shine after ... Betelgeuse, one of the most visible stars in the Earth's sky, is behaving very weirdly. The red giant — a star ...

Often referred to as "failed stars," brown dwarfs form in isolation from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust like a star. However, while fully-fledged stars continue to gather material from the gas ...

Light that escapes collapsing stars and dust clouds may sport an unusually blue hue. Light emitted within these gravitationally unstable objects can get compressed and thus become bluer ...