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Scientists have been left baffled by a mysterious celestial object so bright that physics dictates it should have exploded.
NASA has been tracking so-called ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX), impossible objects that can be 10 million times brighter than the sun, to understand how they work.
These objects are impossible in theory because they break the Eddington limit, a rule of astrophysics that dictates that an object can only be so bright before it breaks apart.
A new study categorically confirms that M82 X-2, a ULX 12 million light-years away, is as bright as previous observation suggested it to be.
But the question remains: how can it possibly exist?
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NASA has been tracking so-called ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX), impossible objects that can be 10 million times brighter than the sun, to understand how they work.
These objects are impossible in theory because they break the Eddington limit, a rule of astrophysics that dictates that an object can only be so bright before it breaks apart.
A new study categorically confirms that M82 X-2, a ULX 12 million light-years away, is as bright as previous observation suggested it to be.
But the question remains: how can it possibly exist?
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A mysterious object has been found that is 10 million times brighter than the sun. Scientists can't work out why it hasn't exploded
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX) are objects that shine ten million times brighter than the sun. Scientists have said they are too bright to exist,
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