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Astronomer Have Discovered A Mysterious Object, Which Is 570 Billion Times Brighter Than The Sun
/blog.physics-astronomy ^ | Unknown | Umer Abrar

Posted on 02/06/2023 5:12:32 PM PST by entropy12

Billions of light years away, there is a giant ball of hot gas that is brighter than hundreds of billions of suns. It is hard to imagine something so bright. So what is it? Astronomers are not really sure, but they have a couple theories.

They think it may be a very rare type of supernova — called a magnetar — but one so powerful that it pushes the energy limits of physics, or in other words, the most powerful supernova ever seen as of today.

This object is so luminous that astronomers are having a really difficult time finding a way to describe it. “If it really is a magnetar, it's as if nature took everything we know about magnetars and turned it up to 11,” said Krzysztof Stanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State University and the team's co-principal investigator, comedically implying it is off the charts on a scale of 1 to 10.The object was first spotted by the All Sky Automated Survey of Supernovae (ASAS-SN or “assassin”), which is a small network of telescopes used to detect bright objects in the universe. Although this object is ridiculously bright, it still can’t be seen by the naked eye because it is 3.8 billion light years away.

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Good thing this object is 3,8 Billion light years away, otherwise it would cause global warming on earth LOL
1 posted on 02/06/2023 5:12:32 PM PST by entropy12
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2 posted on 02/06/2023 5:13:09 PM PST by entropy12 (Food is most popular anxiety drug, exercise is the least popular.)
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To: entropy12

Big deal...


3 posted on 02/06/2023 5:15:34 PM PST by Does so (What distinguishes today's Russian aggression from that of the USSR?)
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To: MtnClimber

ping


4 posted on 02/06/2023 5:15:48 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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Big deal...

More like a big wheel.

5 posted on 02/06/2023 5:16:30 PM PST by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: entropy12

I’m still waiting for our scientists to resolve a theory of gravity...

Not going to worry about something billions of light years away.


6 posted on 02/06/2023 5:16:39 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: entropy12

Bet it’s a huge kitchen light and one day we will all wake up and be standing on a kitchen counter, looking around and saying “What the Heck??!


7 posted on 02/06/2023 5:18:08 PM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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8 posted on 02/06/2023 5:18:15 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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I only think it looks 569 billion times as bright as he sun.

They’re exaggerating


9 posted on 02/06/2023 5:18:29 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: entropy12

Whitey’s fault.


10 posted on 02/06/2023 5:18:41 PM PST by cockroach_magoo (“Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.”  - Huey Long)
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And just think it could have extinguished itself 3.8 billion plus one day ago. We would not now yet.


11 posted on 02/06/2023 5:18:54 PM PST by Revel
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My ex-wife once commented that she was 570 billion times brighter than me. Could the telescope have been pointed at her by mistake?

On second thought, probably not. I think my ex was comparing intelligence, and not light-emitting capacity.


12 posted on 02/06/2023 5:20:04 PM PST by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Billions of light years away, there is was a giant ball of hot gas that is brighter than hundreds of billions of suns.

What we are seeing occurred billions of years ago. No telling what is there now.

13 posted on 02/06/2023 5:21:18 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: entropy12

“I’ve got a home in Glory Land that outshines the sun....”


14 posted on 02/06/2023 5:21:22 PM PST by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: entropy12

Heaven? 🙂


15 posted on 02/06/2023 5:23:12 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: entropy12
Hmmmm. Could it be...Captain Hyperbole?


16 posted on 02/06/2023 5:23:53 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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Billions of light years away, there is a giant ball of hot gas

Plenty of those in DC.

17 posted on 02/06/2023 5:24:21 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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lets wait till it gets over the ocean then we shoot it down


18 posted on 02/06/2023 5:24:42 PM PST by al baby (Yes he did he said how come i wasnt invited )
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To: Revel

Good point.


19 posted on 02/06/2023 5:25:00 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: entropy12

I’m not worried about global warming from this thing. But what does concern me about this thing is the increased likelihood of outbreaks of racism and homophobia.


20 posted on 02/06/2023 5:26:35 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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