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Are stars vanishing into their own black holes? A bizarre binary system says 'yes' (www.space.com)

submitted 5 months ago by m3t00 to c/science

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[–] A_A 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

" ... astronomers are now beginning to come around to the idea that some stars that produce black holes may do so without a supernova explosion."

This reminds me of one science fiction movie in the "Star Trek" universe where "Mr. Spock" was supposed to stop one supernova explosion by initiating a black hole inside the star that would produce the supernova.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(2009_film)

[–] m3t00 7 points 5 months ago

based on this, more to the point, article

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Of course aliens just stopped the explosion.

/s

[–] m3t00 -1 points 5 months ago

seems to me astronomy needs AI trained on elemental physics to sift all the data for patterns. more eyes the better.