An explosion that was billions of times brighter than the sun but faded within a month may have occurred when a rare medium-sized black hole ate a star
Artist’s impression of a black hole destroying a nearby star – a phenomenon that might explain a new type of stellar explosionAstronomers have spotted an astonishingly bright explosion in the sky that doesn’t look like any supernova we have ever seen before. It became brighter than most known supernovae before fading extremely quickly, making it a new type of object the researchers have named “luminous fast coolers”, or LFCs.
shredding and devouring a star. The process of the star ripping apart would cause the brightening, and intermediate-mass black holes are expected to be fast eaters, which could explain the speedy dimming.Voyage across the galaxy and beyond with our space newsletter every month.
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