This sounds like the plot of Pandoras Star by Peter F Hamilton At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over o

This sounds like the plot of Pandoras Star by Peter F Hamilton At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star... vanishes. It does not go supernova. It does not collapse into a black hole. It simply disappears. Lets hope its not the [[SPOILER]]