Object that is 5470 Billion Times Brighter then the Sun Spotted By Astronomer
A Mysterious Object Spotted By Astronomer
There is a giant hot gas ball out there that is so bright that it pushes the energy limit of physics. An Object that is Billions of light years away is brighter than hundreds of billions of suns. Astronomers are not sure what it is? Because its hard to imagine something so bright. There are some theories.
Astronomer think it can be a supernova - called a magnetar - but it is so powerful that it pushes the energy limits of physics, Astronomer say its the most powerful supernova ever seen.
Astronomers are having a 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;"
Even the object is extremely brighter, but its still not visible with naked eye because it 3.8 billion light years away . ASAS-SN, have discovered 250 supernovae since it began in 2014, however this discovery stands out because of its sheer magnitude. The object if 200 times more powerful then supernova , 570 billion times brighter than the sun, 20 times brighter then all the stares in our Galaxy the Milky way combined.
"We have to ask, how it that even possible?" said Stanek. "It takes a lot of energy to shine that bright, and that energy has to come from somewhere."
A professor of astronomy at Ohio State Todd Thompson, Have explanation. That a supernova could have generated an extremely rare type of star called a millisecond magnetar -a crazy strong magnetic field and rapidly spinning and very dense.
In the coming months Hubble Telescope will help solve the mystery by helping astronomers see the host galaxy surrounding this object. This bright object lies in the very center of galaxy - meaning that object is not a magnetar at all - the gas around it is actually evidence of a supermassive black hole
If that is the case then the bright light could be explained by a new kind of event, said co-author Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State. It is something that has never been seen before at center of galaxy.
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