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Corey S Powell
@coreyspowell@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

See the little dot? New studies of that blue flash from the distant universe (a "Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient") indicate it was caused by a black hole swallowing an entire star. For a moment, it blazed as bright as 100 billion Suns.

https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-telescopes-uncover-invisible-gas-around-record-shattering-cosmic-explosion/ #space #science

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Radio telescopes uncover “invisible” gas around record-shattering cosmic explosion - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Astronomers using the NSF Very Large Array and ALMA have uncovered dense, “invisible” gas surrounding AT2024wpp—the brightest known fast blue optical transient—revealing that a massive star was torn apart and consumed by a black hole.
A new, extremely luminous fast blue optical transient, AT2024wpp, flares as a bright blue point of light in the left panel, located just off the edge of its faint host galaxy, while the right panel shows the same region of sky after the outburst faded. Credit: Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University/Daniel Perley
A new, extremely luminous fast blue optical transient, AT2024wpp, flares as a bright blue point of light in the left panel, located just off the edge of its faint host galaxy, while the right panel shows the same region of sky after the outburst faded. Credit: Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University/Daniel Perley
A new, extremely luminous fast blue optical transient, AT2024wpp, flares as a bright blue point of light in the left panel, located just off the edge of its faint host galaxy, while the right panel shows the same region of sky after the outburst faded. Credit: Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University/Daniel Perley
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