How JWST Solved the Puzzle of a Vanishing Star: N6946-BH1- The Star That Went Missing

In this episode, we explore the mystery of a star that disappeared from the sky in 2009, and how the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed some surprising clues about its fate. We discuss two possible scenarios: a failed supernova and a binary merger. We also explain the implications and significance of these findings for our understanding of how massive stars die and how black holes form. This is a story that will blow your mind!

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[angeladragos]

I love it so much when the Cosmos seems peaceful nonviolent and calm

[Sarasdad]

Some stars even leave behind heartbroken fans.

[TysonGodson]

How 3 sources indicate that it was a binary system, after all even binary system would collapse into something single, and there should be only one source or remenent, right?
Is it like this or something else?

[jameshorton]

Everything was going the same speed within, the gasses were a perfect mixture for slow burning, even adding oxygen wouldn't heat it up, but then a second-opposite star that formed at the same time or was spilt, joined back, and then it cooled rapidly from the first gas relief its ever had since the original split.

[raymondford]

I suspect it was sucked up by a black hole on the other side where we couldn't see it. What happened to the planets orbiting that star. I assume it was part of a solar system?

[robertromeo]

Aliens came and drained it to fill up their starship

[wutttheheckler]

Do antimatter stars exist?
And if so, can they be ajoined to a regular star?
And if so, if they merged, would one cancel out the other? 🌟..💢..💫

[marklinsdell]

My belief is the binary system contained a star remnant made up of heavy elements . Which combined with all the heavy elements at the heart of the massive star at which point it's mass went beyond the critical point at which it's gravity became so great that light could no longer escape and effectively became a black hole .which is what I believe a black hole is. It's just an enormous amount of heavy elements which can't be used up in nuclear fusion .
All that stuff has to go somewhere . Some gets thrown out into the galaxy during a supernova but the majority coalesces through natural attraction. Or gravity .
So black holes are just giant neutron stars that have passed a state of critical mass where it's gravity is great enough to contain it's light.

[williamaldine]

Could also be a Dyson sphere or a thick cloud of interstellar dust, or even possibly a rogue planet crossing the field of view between us and the star.

[parvitzparvitz]

It WASN'T a star, it was already a supernovae that disappeared infront of our eyes... thats it

[raymonschepers]

In my book a binary system contains the actual word bi witch means 2. So a binary star system remains out of 2 stars.

Why did the reporter said that this particular strange star system was part of a binary system of 3 stars…?

I’m not trying to muck up with this content and i’m seriously hoping to get some answers.
For there could be some theories that i don’t understand jet.

[mydogbrian]

> Nothing new here.
- It's what's call an; *UN-NOVA!* __Its when a massive, non rotating star who's core collapses into a black hole & sucks the whole outer shell in before it has a chance to blow >⚫️<...👀 not <O> 💥 👀

[CrispyGrey]

How come every star you can see is part of a triangle star system? I have seen two of these triangle star systems fly away when I looked at them. You should be missing six stars from your constellations.

[wilhelmbeck]

"Bright infrared source" ! Ha 😃 And then the : " it opens up two possibilities - cutting off audio" Ha 😃

[weidwingelobjegdiv]

The black hole is the remnant of the Supernova... the outter shell gets blwon off and the black hole remains

[MINRITY-REPRT]

"Or it could be an accretion disk around the black hole." Now, that doesn't make sense does it? Because you just said it just faded away...??

[TamsonsAstrophotography]

Or a white dwarf or red dwarf or many others

[chronic_spot]

Energy cannot be destroyed, how does a star just vanish?!

[dananorth]

I missplace star systems all the time. You'll get used to it.

[daleparker]

Now all the scientists and astronomers are going to bend the rules to make it fit how that star disappeared like it did that goes to show you science and all it's cracked up to be and what they are telling you