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 ...

This popped up on my feeds. Over the last three years, a star went from fairly bright red to nothing. The analysis of the data suggests it was a direct collapse (no supernova) of a 13 solar mass star.

"This is essentially as close as we can get to seeing the death of a massive star." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...