This popped up on my feeds. Over the last three years, a star went from fairly bright red to nothing. The analysis of the data suggests it was a direct collapse (no supernova) of a 13 solar mass star.

Astronomers combing through years of images collected by the NEOWISE mission have found the clearest known evidence of a star converting directly to a black hole, without passing through the supernova ...

Imagine watching a massive star that's been burning steadily for millions of years suddenly dim, fluctuate, and then vanish completely from the night sky. This isn't science fiction. It's happening ...