Star Explosions:  Tasmanian Devil Star’s Mysterious Flares

0
232

The lead author, Anna Y. Q. Ho, an assistant professor of astronomy at the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences, explained the unprecedented nature of these cosmic events.

“Some of the flares were as powerful as the original LFBOT, which means they were even more powerful than a normal supernova! We’ve never seen anything with this combination of duration, power, and wavelength, let alone in the aftermath of a mysterious cosmic cataclysm (the LFBOT itself). The ‘engine’ of these flares was almost certainly a neutron star or a black hole,” Ho revealed.

The LFBOT, or Tasmanian devil star, stands out due to its unique characteristics. Unlike a normal supernova, LFBOTs exhibit distinctive features, emitting significantly more powerful light across the electromagnetic spectrum, including X-rays, radio waves, optical, and ultraviolet lights.

 Ho emphasized that these phenomena unfold rapidly, with signals appearing and vanishing over just a few days, in stark contrast to the gradual brightness changes observed in regular supernovae.