Astronomer Have Discovered A Mysterious Object, Which Is 570 Billion Times Brighter Than The Sun

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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.

[entropy12]

Good thing this object is 3,8 Billion light years away, otherwise it would cause global warming on earth LOL

[entropy12]

[Does so]

Big deal...

[BenLurkin]

ping

[AlaskaErik]

Big deal...

More like a big wheel.

[Jamestown1630]

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

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

[Qwapisking]

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??!

[Magnum44]

[NWFree]

I only think it looks 569 billion times as bright as he sun.

They’re exaggerating

[cockroach_magoo]

Whitey’s fault.

[Revel]

And just think it could have extinguished itself 3.8 billion plus one day ago. We would not now yet.

[Leaning Right]

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.

[Bubba_Leroy]

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.

[Psalm 73]

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

[Robert DeLong]

Heaven? 🙂

[Larry Lucido]

Hmmmm. Could it be...Captain Hyperbole?

[dfwgator]

Billions of light years away, there is a giant ball of hot gas

Plenty of those in DC.

[al baby]

lets wait till it gets over the ocean then we shoot it down

[Jamestown1630]

Good point.

[17th Miss Regt]

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.