{"id":1206510,"date":"2023-11-27T11:21:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206510"},"modified":"2023-11-27T11:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T16:21:05","slug":"tasmanian-devil-event-has-the-power-of-hundreds-of-billions-of-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1206510","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTasmanian Devil\u201d event has the power of hundreds of billions of Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-3-800x615-1.jpe\" alt=\"Image of a bright blue explosion with purple highlights against a dark background.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image-3-scaled.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1969\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/mmg\/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=188709&amp;from=\">NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA\/M. Garlick\/M. Zamani<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What is hundreds of billions of times more powerful than the Sun, flashes on repeat with intense bursts of light, and verges on defying the laws of physics? No, it\u2019s not your neighbors\u2019 holiday lights glitching again. It\u2019s an LFBOT in the depths of space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hubblesite.org\/contents\/media\/images\/2023\/024\/01HBCED629B5QSGR03QM07EV9N?news=true\">LFBOTs (Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients)<\/a> are already quite bizarre. They erupt with blue light, radio, X-ray, and optical emissions, making them some of the brightest explosions ever seen in space, as luminous as supernovae. It is no exaggeration that they give off more energy than hundreds of billions of stars like our own. They also tend to live fast, blazing for only minutes before they burn themselves out and fade into darkness.<\/p>\n<p>LFBOTs are quite rare, and in many cases their sources are unidentified. But we\u2019ve never seen anything with the intensity of an LFBOT named AT2022tsd\u2014aka the \u201cTasmanian Devil.\u201d Its strange behavior was caught by 15 telescopes and observatories, including the W.M. Keck Observatory and NASA\u2019s Chandra Space Telescope. Like other phenomena of its kind, it initially emitted incredible amounts of energy and then dimmed. Unlike any other LFBOT observed before, however, this one seemed to come back from the dead. It flared again\u2014and again and again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986340#p3\">Read 8 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986340&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cTasmanian Devil\u201d event has the power of hundreds of billions of Suns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge (credit: NOIRLab\/NSF\/AURA\/M. Garlick\/M. Zamani) What is hundreds of billions of times more powerful than the Sun, flashes on repeat with intense bursts of light, and verges on defying the laws of physics? 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