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(CN) — In a study published in Nature on Wednesday, dozens of scientists from around the world propose a ghostly explanation for mysterious blue-tinted light bursts in deep space. The ...

This composite image features X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared data of the luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT) named AT 2024wpp. The transient is the bright spot at the upper ...

Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are among the universe's brightest and fastest explosions but their origin is not completely understood. A new study takes a closer look at the galaxies ...

Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are the very unsexy name for something spectacular and mysterious: a bright flash of light lasting a couple of days with a dramatic blue hue. They have a ...

A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger – thanks to the eagle-eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous ...

The universe is full of stupendously huge explosions. Gamma ray bursts in distant galaxies are literally an everyday sight, and supernovae are even more common as astronomers observe hundreds every ...

“The Finch” is a bright flash of light that appeared on many telescopes on April 10, 2023. To this day, astronomers don’t know what set it off. The avian moniker belongs to an event scientists spot ...

A colossal cosmic cataclysm exploding with the intensity of an entire galaxy of stars has gobsmacked astronomers, who say the detonations of hot, blue-white light upend our understanding of how the ...