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.

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.

Out in the universe lie dead stellar remnants called neutron stars, and these stars gain ... of the sun (the so-called Chandrasekhar limit), collapsing under its own gravity.

An intense blast of energy that was detected on Earth appears to have come from two colliding and collapsing stars, according to scientists. Researchers looking through archival observations of ...

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 ...

NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) This year, astronomers witnessed a cosmic spectacle when two neutron stars—the dense remains of collapsing stars—crashed into each other billions of lightyears ...