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The Quiet Death of a Star ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Fading into darkness: A weak mass ejection and low-efficiency fallback accompanying black hole formation in M31-2014-DS1"
arXiv:2601.05774v2 · 2026-01-09 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · Stellar Galaxies High Energy
A star in the Andromeda galaxy disappeared without a bang, leaving just a cold dust cloud — that’s how invisible black holes come into being.
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In the Andromeda galaxy, a star just vanished without a flash. Telescopes spotted a dim object in a dust cloud — that's how a black hole is born when a star quietly 'exhales' its shell and collapses. A cosmic ghost.

🎯 The cloud of this stellar 'soot' would swallow the entire Solar System with room to spare: its size is hundreds of times larger than Pluto's orbit — a true invisible smog around the newborn [tag:black_hole]black hole[/tag].

Scientists
Christian DopplerD. B. McLaughlinDidier QuelozMichel MayorR. A. RossiterStephen Hawking
Tags
black hole supernova cosmic dust spectroscopy JWST galaxy
Laws
Doppler effectHawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equationsMaxwell's equations
Original: arXiv:2601.05774v2 · CC BY · bridge42worlds