{"id":229323,"date":"2026-01-19T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/star-appears-to-have-vanished-in-a-failed-supernova"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T19:10:40","slug":"star-appears-to-have-vanished-in-a-failed-supernova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/star-appears-to-have-vanished-in-a-failed-supernova","title":{"rendered":"Star appears to have vanished in a failed supernova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/star-appears-to-have-vanished-in-a-failed-supernova2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than exploding in a supernova, and we might now have seen the process in action.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/alex-wilkins\/\">Alex Wilkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than exploding in a supernova, and we might now have seen the process in action. By Alex Wilkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}