A dozen luminous blue outbursts were thought to be unusual supernovae. A new outburst, the brightest yet, suggests it's ...
A record-bright LFBOT exposes violent encounters between black holes and stars, helping astronomers understand extreme black ...
Far from our solar system, brief explosions of electric-blue light are flaring in distant galaxies, outshining entire star ...
Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are the very unsexy name for something spectacular and mysterious: a bright ...
Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...
The phenomenon, known as luminous fast blue optical transients or LFBOTs, comes in the form of short, bright flashes of light ...
Scientists explain how rare bright blue cosmic flashes form when black holes tear apart massive stars, based on new observations of the event AT 2024wpp and similar fast blue optical transients ...