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Comment on A star appears to have collapsed straight into a black hole without supernova (2017)

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Or something just moved in front of it. It did not rage against the dying of the light, the definition of out with a whimper.

Like people spent years of their life scientifically studying the problem and didn’t think of this before making the claim?

It was multi-wave analysis not just visible light, IR spread can differentiate this.

It’s been missing since 2015. Probability of something being large enough to cover the star and stay on a path completely obscuring it for 10 years is shall we say, not likely.

It didn’t rage against the dying of the light, it just switched off.

As many as 30 percent of such stars, it seems, may quietly collapse into black holes — no supernova required.

TFA says the astronomers checked for that. It's still a possibility, but pretty unlikely.

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