Something in space is sending us brief, very bright blasts of blue light – and scientists might finally have a clue to what they are. The phenomenon, known as luminous fast blue optical transients or ...

The research team behind a new paper published Wednesday in Nature said the flashes in the luminous fast blue optical transient, or LFBOT, are just as powerful as the initial explosion, which has not ...

Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are among the universe's brightest and fastest explosions but their origin is ...

The Hubble Space Telescope recently observed something strange: an extremely bright, extremely fast flash of light that popped up in the middle of nowhere. Technically known as a Luminous Fast Blue ...

Scientists have observed a series of bright, brief flashes occurring months after a stellar explosion, known as a luminous fast blue optical transient, or LFBOT The sighting of the never before seen ...

This composite image features X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared data of the luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT) named AT 2024wpp. The transient is the bright spot at the upper ...