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Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence

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Astronomers Say Star Self-Destructed So Catastrophically That It Left Behind No Trace of Its Existence
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When a star explodes, it typically leaves behind some sort of remnant: an exposed, ultra-dense core, for example, or even a black hole.



But one massive star, hundreds of times heavier than our Sun, self-destructed so catastrophically that it left behind no remnant whatsoever, astronomers report in a new study awaiting peer review and highlighted by Phys.org



First detected in 2023 in a dwarf galaxy some 1.3 billion light years away, the blast is now believed to be an elusive class of explos

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