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> It means not the creation of a black hole (like I initially thought), There was a candidate for a stellar collapse to a black hole a few years ago: https://

> It means not the creation of a black hole (like I initially thought), There was a candidate for a stellar collapse to a black hole a few years ago: https://www.livescience.com/disappearing-star-black-hole-no-supernova.html https://www.livescience.com/disappearing-star-black-hole-no-... Unfortunately it's in a galaxy far, far away, so we couldn't see the star directly, we just saw a characteristic emission line disappear without a corresponding supernova. Given that it seemed like a large star, one possibility is direct core-collapse.

shiroiushi 2y ago
>Unfortunately it's in a galaxy far, far away, so we couldn't see the star directly, we just saw a characteristic emission line disappear without a corresponding supernova. Given that it seemed like a large star, one possibility is direct core-collapse. It sounds like the Galactic Empire has a new super-weapon that can destroy an entire star system by causing the core to collapse into a black hole.