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A number of scientists confirmed the discovery of a cosmic explosion, which occurred three years ago, and it is a ball of energy 100 times larger than our solar system.
They explained that it suddenly ignited three years ago, and the force of the explosion was ten times greater than any other explosion, pointing out that its continuation of more than 3 years would make it the most active among all similar explosions. According to (Russia Today).
The research team added, “The explosion occurred about 8 billion light-years ago when a massive black hole swallowed a huge cloud of gas, perhaps thousands of times larger than the sun, as the explosion sent electrical waves through space, leaving extremely hot remnants inside.”
The source indicated that astronomers are examining the causes of this phenomenon, which, over the course of 3 years, released an unlimited amount of energy that exceeds what results from a gamma-ray burst.
This phenomenon was called (AT2021lwx), it is not the brightest ever recorded and is attributed to a gamma-ray burst (a massive explosion of energy during a star fall) (GRB221009A) that was discovered in October 2022, and it was believed to be “the brightest of all time”. “.
According to the study’s lead author, Philip Wiseman, an astrophysicist at the University of Southampton, UK, AT 2021 LWX is the result of an “accidental discovery”.
The cosmic explosion was observed in 2020 by the US observatory, the “Zwicky Transit Facility” in California, but the observation (AT 2021 LWX) remained unused in the observatory’s database, according to Weizmann, until scientists discovered it the following year.
-Direct observation of the phenomenon changed the situation, while analysis of the light proved that it took 8 billion years to reach the telescope.
-Astronomers are still wondering about the reason for this phenomenon, because it could be a supernova, that is, a massive explosion of a star at the end of its life. However, the luminosity produced by “AT2021 LWX” is ten times greater than the luminosity produced by the supernova.
The second possibility is that this explosion is an astronomical phenomenon represented in the collapse of a star after it came very close to a supermassive black hole, but the brightness of (AT 2021 LWX) is three times greater to prove a similar scenario.
The measured luminosity can only be compared with the luminosity of quasars. These galaxies contain a supermassive black hole sticking to matter that emits a huge amount of light. But the light emitted by quasars is bright, whereas in 2021 (LWX) the light suddenly turned bad three years ago. “We’ve never seen a similar phenomenon,” Wiseman says. “It just seems to come out of nowhere.”
Weizmann’s team presented an idea in the study, which is that a huge cloud of gas the size of 5,000 suns is being devoured by a supermassive black hole.
Since the principle of science is that “there are no proven theories,” the team works on a new simulation using a data set, with the goal of testing the “deterministic plausibility” of their theory.
The problem lies in the huge black holes that are believed to be in the center of galaxies, and that the size of (AT 2021 LWX) should be similar to the size of the Milky Way galaxy. No one has yet discovered a galaxy in the vicinity of the observed phenomenon, Weizmann says: “It is a real headache.”
