Astronomers discover a luminous nuclear transient

Using NASA’s Swift spacecraft, an international team of astronomers has discovered a luminous and slowly-evolving nuclear transient event. The origin of the newly detected transient, designated Swift J221951-484240, is yet to be determined. The finding was reported July 3 on the preprint server arXiv.


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Source: Phys.org