Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Glasgow!
My name is Dan Shriver and I am sitting here with Andrew Hunter Murray,
Anatozinski and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go,
starting with you, James.
Okay, my fact this week is, when a very large star quietly turns into a black hole without the usual explosion,
the official term used by astronomers is a massive fail.
Poor star, as if it wasn't embarrassed enough, it wasn't able to make the explosion.
Well, it turns out that about 30% of massive stars turn into massive fails, and they found this out quite recently,
they were looking at an area of the universe called the Firework Galaxy, and where there's loads of supernovas,
so when it explodes, when you've got a big star and it explodes,
it's called a supernova, and eventually that turns into a black hole,
but sometimes it's happening without the supernova, and this area called the Firework Galaxy had loads of supernovas,
but they weren't quite as many as they thought there should be,
and they couldn't work out why, and then they were looking at a star called N6946-BH1.
Ooh, my uncle's called that, so that's a nozzy name.
That's a prisoner number, isn't it?
When he's out in five years, you'll regret saying that.
And they noticed that it wasn't there anymore, and it had just kind of quietly dissipated,
and this is a thing that happens that they've only just found out in the last six months or so.