Mysterious bright radio flashes that appear for only a brief moment on the sky and do not repeat could be the final farewell greetings of a massive star collapsing into a black hole, astronomers ...

Though it's commonly assumed that large stars always end their lives in a supernova, this is not the case. Near their demise, stars about eight times bigger than our sun collapse inwards under their ...

Neutrinos are cosmic tricksters, paradoxically hardly there but lethal to stars significantly more massive than the sun.

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have found evidence that very massive stars can disappear without an explosion. Their study suggests that the gravity of these stars is so strong ...

The mysterious vanishing of stars might seem like the stuff of science fiction (look no further than the season four finale of Doctor Who), but it’s very much a reality; in the last 70 years, around ...

New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise to mysterious "low-field magnetars." ...

Astronomers have documented around 800 cases of stars mysteriously vanishing over the past 70 years. New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests these stars might be collapsing ...

Following the blast, the dense core of leftover stellar material may collapse into a black hole or a neutron star — two of space's most massive and mysterious objects.