An explosion in space nicknamed the Tasmanian devil has confused astronomers by flashing at peak brightness more than a dozen times, months after the initial event. The observation, while posing new ...

The research team behind a new paper published Wednesday in Nature said the flashes in the luminous fast blue optical transient, or LFBOT, are just as powerful as the initial explosion, which has not ...

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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’s not your neighbors’ holiday lights ...