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

Mysterious radio flashes may be farewell greetings from massive stars collapsing into black holes. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2013 / 07 ...

Astrophysicists explain a mysterious phenomenon, whereby stars suddenly vanish from the night sky. An unusual binary star system shows that massive stars can completely collapse into black holes ...

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 ...

800 Stars Have Vanished Over 70 Years. Could They Be Collapsing Into Black Holes? Astronomers have documented around 800 cases of stars mysteriously vanishing over the past 70 years.

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 ...

Astrophysicists from the University of Copenhagen have studied a mysterious phenomenon: stars that suddenly disappear from the sky. One day, the Sun will begin to expand until it engulfs the Earth, ...

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." ...

In 2019, scientists witnessed a massive star 2.5 million times brighter than the sun disappear without a trace. Now, in a new paper published today (June 30) in the journal Monthly Notices of the ...

Stars shouldn't just disappear from the night sky without a trace. They should either dim, or if massive enough, explode spectacularly. And yet, astronomers have documented at least 800 cases of ...