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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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00:00The Sun is the brightest thing around, but many cosmic objects can be much, much brighter.
00:09In fact, astronomers at NASA have just clocked something in deep space that's so bright.
00:13They say it defies the laws of physics.
00:15They're calling it an ultra-luminous X-ray source, and they say it's around 10 million times brighter than the Sun.
00:21The source has been named M82X2, named for the M82 galaxy where the source is emanating from.
00:27Despite having a name and knowing where it's hailing from, experts still aren't sure what it is.
00:31Current laws of astrophysics outline how when an object gets too bright, it will break apart, a theory called the Eddington Limit.
00:37But this source would thwart that disintegration threshold.
00:40Astronomers initially believed it could be some massive cosmic wind that had been trapped up in a sort of galactic tornado,
00:46spinning into a cone with the tip pointing towards Earth, focusing the light.
00:49But now they say it more likely has to do with a mega-dense pulsating neutron star,
00:53explaining that it could be a super strong magnetic field, firing out from that star as well,
00:57squishing incoming matter and changing the shape of its atomic structure,
01:01elongating atoms and increasing the star's brightness.
01:05And now we are going through this.
01:07For more information on the horizon.
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