Astronomers witness vanishing star collapse into a black hole in Andromeda galaxy

An illustration of a dark section of space with a few stars and there's a glowing white orb in the center. There's a shell of red material around it.

Astronomers may have witnessed the birth of a brand-new black hole in our neighboring galaxy, offering one of the clearest glimpses yet of how some stars quietly collapse into these cosmic abysses without the usual fireworks of an explosion.