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The explosion took place in 2011 and released in three minutes the same amount of energy as our sun releases in 800 years. The researchers named the explosion a"hyperburst."
"For any type of thermonuclear explosion, you need very high temperatures and very high pressure," study co-author Jeroen Homan, a research scientist at Eureka Scientific in Oakland, California, told."For a hyperburst, the temperature and pressure requirements are so high that we think it may only occur in a particular source once in 1,000 years."
The hyperburst occurred deep within a neutron star; it is the result of hundreds or thousands of years of heat and pressure building up.The star that produced this flare-up is called MAXI J0556–332. In 2011, when the researchers first spotted it they knew right away that something about this particular explosion was different.
"During the first week after the outburst ended, we noticed that this star was incredibly hot," Homan said."About twice as hot as any other star that we've observed before." , the team concluded that they had discovered a thermonuclear explosion that occurred deep in the neutron star as the result of the nuclear fusion of oxygen or neon.
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