The bizarre space explosions scientists can’t explain

Philip Drury/ University of Sheffield Artist's impression of the luminous fast blue optical transient explosion AT2018cow showing a bright explosion surrounded by a flat blast disk (Credit: Philip Drury/University of Sheffield)Philip Drury/ University of Sheffield

(Credit: Philip Drury/ University of Sheffield)

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?

Astronomers had never seen anything like…

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