Astronomers have observed an explosion 180 million light-years away that challenges our current understanding of cosmic explosions, exhibiting a significantly flatter appearance than previously thought possible. Astronomers have observed an explosion 180 million light years away which challenge
Astronomers have observed an explosion 180 million light-years away that challenges our current understanding of cosmic explosions, exhibiting a significantly flatter appearance than previously thought possible.
Explosions are almost always expected to be spherical, as the stars themselves are spherical, but this one is the flattest ever seen A potential explanation for how this explosion occurred is that the star itself may have been surrounded by a dense disk or it may have been a failed supernova The explosion observed was a bright Fast Blue Optical Transient — an extremely rare class of explosion that is much less common than other explosions, such as supernovas. The first bright FBOT was discovered in 2018 and given the nickname “the cow.”
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