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Supergiant Star Collapsed into Stellar-Mass Black Hole in Andromeda Galaxy


Using archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission along with data from other space and ground-based observatories, astronomers identified the clearest observational record yet of a massive star fading and vanishing into a black hole -- an event once theorized but rarely seen.

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