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3mo ago

Brightest Blue Cosmic Flash Linked to Black Hole Tearing Apart a Massive Star, Studies Find

Analyses of AT 2024wpp show an energy output far beyond supernovae, pointing to an extreme tidal disruption that refocuses how astronomers will search for these events.

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4mo ago

Webb Maps Four Dust Spirals and Confirms Third Star in Rare Apep Wolf-Rayet System

11 ARTICLES

4mo ago

Trapped Jets in Massive Stars Revealed as Source of Fast X-Ray Transients

Massive Stars

Brightest Blue Cosmic Flash Linked to Black Hole Tearing Apart a Massive Star, Studies Find

Webb Maps Four Dust Spirals and Confirms Third Star in Rare Apep Wolf-Rayet System

Astronomers Capture a Supernova’s Olive-Shaped Shock Breakout Within a Day

Day-Long, Repeating Gamma-Ray Burst Outside Milky Way Defies Existing Models

Astronomers Identify Ultra-Stripped Supernova, Propose New ‘Type Ien’

Black Hole-Star Encounter Likely Sparked Rare Double-Peaked Supernova

Black Hole–Star Encounter Likely Spawned SN 2023zkd, Study Finds

ALMA Reveals 1.4-Light-Year Bubble Around Supergiant DFK 52

Trapped Jets in Massive Stars Revealed as Source of Fast X-Ray Transients