Weird system shows stars can die quietly futurity.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from futurity.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Stars that vanish from the sky may be collapsing directly into black holes without going supernova first, a new study of a bizarre binary star system suggests.
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"The collapse is so complete that no explosion occurs, nothing escapes and one wouldn t see any bright supernova," said researcher Alejandro Vigna-Gómez.
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