In its final "act," this star will either explode as a supernova—possibly blasting away some or all of the dust shells—or collapse into a black hole, which would leave the dust shells intact.

Up to 50% of feeding black holes may be hidden behind gas and dust These black holes influence star formation in galaxies Infrared data helped uncover obscured supermassive black holes ...

In its final ‘act,’ this star will either explode as a supernova — possibly blasting away some or all of the dust shells — or collapse into a black hole, which would leave the dust shells intact.

The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second. Life as we know it is based on carbon chemistry, and now the James Webb Space ...

The discovery is thanks to shells ... dust shells, and the other is that the supernova fails to detonate if the core of the star collapses under its own gravity so completely that it forms a black ...

Webb’s latest observations show 17 dust shells shining in mid-infrared light ... researchers are rooting for the black hole scenario. “A major question in astronomy is, where does all the ...

The shellers often worked “more than 10 hours a day, seven days a week for $2 to $3 weekly, as the fine brown dust released by pecans exposed them to tuberculosis,” Library of Congress records ...