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This Cosmic Object is So Bright, Scientists Think It Might Break Physics
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The Sun is the brightest thing around, but many cosmic objects can be much brighter. And in fact, astronomers at NASA have just clocked something in deep space that’s so bright, they say it defies the laws of physics.
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The Sun is the brightest thing around, but many cosmic objects can be much, much brighter.
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In fact, astronomers at NASA have just clocked something in deep space that's so bright,
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they say it defies the laws of physics.
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They're calling it an ultra-luminous X-ray source, and they say it's around 10 million
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times brighter than the Sun.
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The source has been named M82X2, named for the M82 galaxy where the source is emanating
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from.
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But despite having a name and knowing where it's hailing from, experts still aren't sure
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what it is.
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Current laws of astrophysics outline how when an object gets too bright, it will break apart,
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a theory called the Eddington Limit.
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But this source would thwart that disintegration threshold.
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Astronomers initially believed it could be some massive cosmic wind that had been trapped
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up in a sort of galactic tornado, spinning into a cone with the tip pointing towards
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Earth, focusing the light.
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But now they say it more likely has to do with a mega-dense pulsating neutron star,
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explaining that it could be a super-strong magnetic field, firing out from that star
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as well, squishing incoming matter and changing the shape of its atomic structure, elongating
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atoms and increasing the star's brightness.
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