Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Surprises Astronomers Studying the Distant X-ray Universe (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Surprises Astronomers Studying the Distant X-ray Universe (1 of 3)

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Animation showing the variability of the discovered flaring X-ray source. The intensity of the source increased more than 1,000 times and then declined to invisibility over a period of a few hours.

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NASA/CXC/F. Bauer et al.

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