CLASSIC: A Cosmic Murder Mystery: The Star That Simply Vanished

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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4.3 • 10.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

How can a star disappear? As Ben, Matt and Noel learn in this evening's Classic episode, there's more than a bit of weirdness involved: a few years back, an enterprising group of astronomers and astrophysicists found themselves transformed into full-on space detectives when a cursory observation of a luminous blue variable star located in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy revealed the star had simply... vanished. This is, according to what our species understands, impossible. Something this big should leave some sort of trace. So what happened? Join Ben, Matt and Noel as they explore the ongoing cosmic conundrum, exploring the story of this galactic noir mystery -- and, ultimately, attempting to learn what led to its untimely disappearance.

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0:00.0	Fellow conspiracy realist, we are returning with a classic episode that speaks to our
0:07.3	exploration of Nibiru occurring quite recently.
0:12.7	Back in 2020, we learned that a star vanished, a cosmic murder mystery.
0:21.1	That's weird, right? That's not supposed to happen.
0:23.0	It's not really supposed to happen.
0:25.2	Sometimes stars explode, but they don't vanish.
0:28.8	They just break into like smaller bits.
0:31.2	Yeah, or they have like a spin-off band or a solo project.
0:35.5	Yeah, turn into a black hole, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah, or a white dwarf or
0:41.4	something. You know, the star collapses, but it always leaves forensic evidence. As we discovered,
0:48.8	there was this investigation that turned into kind of a murder mystery out there in space.
0:55.0	That's right.
0:55.4	Recently, an enterprising group of astronomers and astrophysicists found themselves transformed into space detectives to help solve this cosmic murder mystery in question.
1:04.7	So let's join this conversation already in progress with us.
1:07.5	This is an IHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.
1:12.3	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
1:19.2	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
1:24.4	A production of IHeart Radio.
1:38.3	Thank you. A production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show. My name is Matt. My name is Noel.
1:39.3	They call me Ben. We're joined as always with our super producer, Paul Mission Control Deccant.
1:45.2	Most importantly, you are you, you are here, and that makes this stuff they don't want you to know.
1:52.6	Today we are investigating a mystery. And spoiler alert, it is not one that we are going to
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