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MilestoneMay 9, 2026

Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos

Black holes slamming into scorching stars may be causing mysterious blue flashes in the cosmos
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Powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients could be caused when a black hole or neutron star slams into the universe's hottest class of star.

"As opposed to the other models, the compact object and Wolf-Rayet merger model does appear to easily justify all of the LFBOT transient and environmental properties!

" Out in the universe, there exist mysterious and powerful bright blue cosmic explosions called Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOT) — and new research may finally have some answers as to where these strange blasts come from.

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