Solving the Mystery of Blue Flashes

Artist illustration of a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (Credit : Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF)

Brief, brilliant flashes of blue light occasionally appear across the universe, burning hundreds of times brighter than ordinary supernovae before fading within days. Astronomers have puzzled over these luminous fast blue optical transients for years, unable to determine whether they were unusual stellar explosions or something else entirely. Observations of AT 2024wpp, the brightest example ever detected, have finally solved the mystery.

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