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These blazing blue explosions may be born when a compact dead star slams into a Wolf-Rayet star

  • April 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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These blazing blue explosions may be born when a compact dead star slams into a Wolf-Rayet star
Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are among the universe's brightest and fastest explosions but their origin is not completely understood. A new study takes a closer look at the galaxies they occur in, offering two important clues about their nature. A paper outlining these results was uploaded to the preprint server arXiv on March 24.

Originally published at Phys.org

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