{"id":307104,"date":"2026-02-24T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307104\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:20:08","slug":"astronomers-just-witnessed-an-incredibly-rare-view-as-they-spot-stars-direct-collapse-into-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307104\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers just witnessed an incredibly rare view as they spot star\u2019s direct collapse into a black hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have shared the clearest evidence ever of a star collapsing into a black hole, with one astronomy professor hailing it as the \u2018most surprising discovery\u2019 of his life.<\/p>\n

The star<\/a>, named M31-2014-DS1, was located around 2.5 million light-years from Earth and had a mass around 13 times that of the Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It had been thought that stars of that size would explode as a supernova before becoming a black hole<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, this newly found evidence appears to show this particular star having a \u2018direct collapse\u2019 to become a black hole.<\/p>\n

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The star turned into a black hole, without becoming a supernova<\/p>\n

Scientists have believed for some time that stars can become black holes<\/a> without passing through the supernova stage, but finding evidence to back that up has proved a little more difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But now, researchers from\u00a0Columbia University have shared the clearest ever images of a star going through \u2018direct collapse\u2019 and turning into a black hole without exploding into a supernova.<\/p>\n

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Astronomers say the way in which it became a black hole suggests that at the end of its life, the inner core wasn\u2019t pushed out in a typical supernova explosion, but instead it had an inward collapse.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Although once 13 times the mass of the Sun, powerful solar winds had stripped a lot of that weight during its life, so that at the time of its death, M31-2014-DS1 was around five times the mass of the Sun.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dramatic and sustained fading of this star is very unusual, and suggests a supernova failed to occur, leading to the collapse of the star\u2019s core directly into a black hole,\u201d Columbia University<\/a> astronomy professor Kishalay De said.<\/p>\n

\u201cStars with this mass have long been assumed to always explode as supernovae.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that it didn\u2019t suggests that stars with the same mass may or may not successfully explode, possibly due to how gravity, gas pressure, and powerful shock waves interact in chaotic ways with each other inside the dying star.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The images were taken more than a decade ago, but had remained unnoticed until now <\/p>\n

The new findings have been published in the journal Science this month, but the images on which the findings are based are actually more than a decade old.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2014, a NASA telescope<\/a> observed an infrared light coming from the M31-2014-DS1 in the Andromeda galaxy that continued to grow brighter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The glow intensified for around three years before it dramatically vanished, leaving behind a dust shell.<\/p>\n

\"Scientists<\/a>NASA\/Kishalay De et al<\/p>\n

These images went unnoticed until the team at Columbia University took a closer look and realized what they\u2019d found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has probably been the most surprising discovery of my life,\u201d De said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evidence of the disappearance of the star was lying in public archival data and nobody noticed for years until we picked it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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