On November 15, 2023, scientists were puzzled by an explosion in space known as the “Tasmanian Devil” as they struggled to explain why it glowed at maximum brightness more than twenty times, months after the initial event. This observation, while raising new questions, may help determine what could cause such explosions, known as luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs).
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