Incredible animation shows supergiant star collapsing into a black hole

Scientists have captured the astonishing moment a supergiant star collapsed into a black hole. The now-deceased star, dubbed M31-2014-DS1, was located around 2.5 million light-years from Earth in the neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy. In 2014, NASA telescopes recorded the distant star brightening briefly before fading out of existence over the next three years. Now, scientists have realised they had inadvertently watched as the star died, collapsed, and transformed into a black hole.