“A ‘monster’ star 2 million times brighter than the sun disappears without a trace”

“Perhaps the massive star died and collapsed into a black hole without undergoing a supernova explosion first — a truly ‘unprecedented’ act of stellar suicide.” That’s just one of many speculations. It is an LBV, prone to massive variations in brightness, so there are multiple possibilities.

What we do know is that one of the largest stars in the universe seems to have disappeared from our observations.

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