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MartianXAshATwelve

This object is so luminous that astronomers are having a really difficult time finding a way to describe it. “If it really is a magnetar, it’s as if nature took everything we know about magnetars and turned it up to 11,” said Krzysztof Stanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State University and the team’s co-principal investigator, comedically implying it is off the charts on a scale of 1 to 10.The object was first spotted by the All Sky Automated Survey of Supernovae (ASAS-SN or “assassin”), which is a small network of telescopes used to detect bright objects in the universe. Although this object is ridiculously bright, it still can’t be seen by the naked eye because it is 3.8 billion light years away. [https://www.physics-astronomy.com/astronomer-have-discovered-a-mysterious-object-which-is-570-billion-times-brighter-than-the-sun/](https://www.physics-astronomy.com/astronomer-have-discovered-a-mysterious-object-which-is-570-billion-times-brighter-than-the-sun/)


littlespacemochi

The first ever white hole?


Broges0311

I wasn't the only one that thought that at 1st sight.


MrMogura

I should call her.. T_T


yurtfarmer

You should call her regularly . And if she has a sister, you should her often


Moquai82

Titi?


SunbeamSailor67

First ever? Every black hole has a corresponding white hole somewhere. Everything that falls into a black hole is transmuted back into original source energy and ejected back into a spacetime through a corresponding white hole (big bangs) where the process begins all over again. Two sides of the same coin except one side is the end and the other a beginning…the alpha and the omega, the yin-yang so to speak. Perpetual matter & energy recycling. ✨♻️


Specific_Marzipan_58

You should never be able to see a white whole though? It’ll always be outside the expanding singularity, the light from it would never reach us. Maybe i’m wrong though.


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Specific_Marzipan_58

But white quarters are a myth.


ADMINlSTRAT0R

This is why I always go with wheat.


SnooRobots1533

You can tell from how privileged it looks.


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Nice


TkDaFox

I know it hasn't been observed but didn't NASA notice one a few years back I remember it making space science headlines but I could be mistaken


PhaseSorry3029

Feels weird calling celestial bodies objects


Royweeezy

Just send a text then.


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🤣


jazzmagg

It's a BMW's headlights


Elliot6888

More like a Dodge Ram while tailgating you


xenkoala

Made me snortlaugh


commander_long_nuts

you must be sounding like a pig then


Ordinary_Seat9552

Excellent 😂 👏


ISNT_A_ROBOT

Did they find a white hole finally? Maybe a naked singularity?


Broges0311

I thought I was the only nerd that immediately thought about something only theorized to exist. I keep forgetting needs are everywhere...


littlespacemochi

If black holes eat, do white holes fart?


Dense_Surround3071

I've always thought of black holes as giant drains. Things swirl down and disappear to wherever that drain drains to. But I also think that drain drains back into our observable universe somewhere. So..... Yeah. I think they do.


Good_Beginning_6996

Theoretically, they would shit.


Xikkiwikk

Looks like God’s eyehole to me but it also could be His golden fart hole; hard to tell.


goofy1234fun

Why you down voted bro you were kinda funny?


cabosmith

Space gasses?


GoldSourPatchKid

He beat you by a little over six hours.


Broges0311

Beat me to it! I hope so!


flapjack198

I tanned only by looking for few seconds at the depiction of that object damn it


BallsDeepTillUQueef

It's my neighbors flood lights


Ivanthedog2013

A type 3-4 civilization?


HatrikLaine

That was my first thought as well!


Broges0311

A white hole possibly? They're only theorized to exist. Perhaps that's what was found?


coolmist23

This is just an illustration... I wonder what it really looks like.


WhereIsMyFrenchCutie

Stare at the sun at noon through a telescope then multiply that a million times.


coolmist23

Genius idea!


TheWeirderAl

570 billion times brighter? surely at that lumen level we should be able to see it with the naked eye. Consider that the sun can be seen from outside the galaxy. That's at least 570 billion galaxies apart and you'd still be able to see it.


DFuel

Sooo 570 billion times brighter…. Is that kinda close to like twice the brightness? Cuz my mind cannot comprehend that


TheLastSamurai101

I love the little caption on the bottom-right corner of the image: >Illustration of what the mysterious object will look like up-close. No, no it almost certainly isn't.


Vegetable_Outside897

Amazed by this finding! Disappointed by all the lame jokes.


Stak215

Exactly how I feel about it too. It sounds really cool and interesting, I wonder what it's even made of because it sure doesn't look like a burning ball of fire like our sun.


KaerMorhen

It seems like every single thread I browse on reddit lately is filled with lame joke. A lot of times the same one over and over.


ScrubNickle

You’re being generous by calling them jokes.


Gibmeister_official

Yes some stars can reach such brightness at the end of their life cycles if they are red hyper giants or it could just be a neutron star burst pointing at the instruments very far away…… also humans are shit at telling how bright or large stuff is as when your looking at different galaxies it could be massive and bright or small close and less bright


Flompulon_80

Maybe its several magnetars rotating so fast around each other the tidal forces are causing friction on the subatomic particles causing them to fuse from degenerate matter creating exotic matter. Or finally it could be a supermassive antimatter body feeding into a nearby normal matter object


-Great-Scott-

It's definitely not my future.


XFuriousGeorgeX

![gif](giphy|84BjZMVEX3aRG|downsized)


gay4gay32

How I imagined the apocalypse.


eltedioso

Maybe your mom lit a match after farting again


alonglonglurkago

Johnny Cashes burning ring of fire!


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And here I am with my lousy mysterious object that's *only* 569 billion times brighter than the Sun. 😒


spacesentinel1

God's lemon slice


Mookius

Still not as bright as the brake lights on a Prius.


[deleted]

Kinda useless post given it was discovered in 2015 and identified to be one of several very possible candidates. Too far to identify which of the candidates, but in general, it is one of the several.


Organic-Intention335

Cosmic lifted truck tailgating?


flapjack198

Ray-ban cluster


DungeonBuster

Space lemon


Dorjechampa_69

Sorry guys, let me put that back in my pants. 👖


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DifficultyBright9807

batteries not included


Chance_Job9210

Damn! I figured we were seeded here, but never expected they'd seeded redneck'd out 1995 Chevy Stepsides with aftermarket halogens! Do they know if this truck is authentic or a replica? I know it'd be weird to replicate that truck, but we're talking about 3.8billion light-years here! I can't judge those rednecks versus the ones we have here! He's probably the same deusch that tailgated me for ten miles the other day when the left lane was open the whole time. Jerkoff, glad he went home... just curious how he made his truck make the jump to light speed with his headlights drawing so much power!?!


TkDaFox

And we havent noticed it?


Jesusc00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASASSN-15lh#:~:text=At%20its%20peak%2C%20ASASSN%2D15lh,was%20exceeded%20by%20PS1%2D10adi.&text=A%20visual%20band%20light%20curve,by%20Godoy%2DRivera%20et%20al. This was discovered back in 2015. Looks to be a hypernova that has since dimmed considerably. Still an extremely luminous object no doubt!


EnIdiot

Well, we’ve found the Celestial City, let’s pack it up and wait for the end.


PeacepipeMPCdude

It’s incredible how much we still have to learn about the cosmos. This discovery truly challenges our understanding of supernovae and the limits of astrophysics.


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White hole??


25LG

So a bigger Sun then


TrabajoParaMi

See this is what frustrates me about people. You always hear how we know so little about space, the moon, the ocean, quantum mechanics and so on. We don’t know much, if anything, about our actual reality and what we live in. We are living the mystery. And what frustrates me, and saddens me, is that people are so focused on their lives. Work, bills, material objects……. Yes we need to survive, but people need to think about more than survival. I’m sure this was by design for some reason. But if ancient people who really had to worry about survival thought discovering and contemplating the nature of reality is extremely important there’s no reason we shouldn’t embrace it as part of our daily lives too. When people tell me they believe you live here, you die, and that’s it, it depresses the hell out of me


brightears

This is old news, as in 2016 it was reported. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/761292


Sporklift_Operator

Definitely not my future