'Usually a supernova, or a sun-like star falling into a black hole, lasts a few months because there just isn't enough material to power them for any longer before they fade away,' Wiseman told The Register. We just have to keep watching to find out Frictional forces heat up the accretion disk, and eject beams of electromagnetic energy. As material is pulled and swallowed by the void, it is compressed into a disk-shape. The astronomer team believes this rare event has lasted so long because the supermassive black hole at the heart of it has been feeding on matter from a gigantic gas cloud, possibly thousands of times more massive than the Sun. Space: The final frontier, or the next venture capital gold rush.Hubble spots stellar midwife unit pumping out baby planets.I've seen things you wouldn't believe, like an atom about to photosynthesize.Ten-day optical burst shows star eating giant planet, scientists say.Although AT2021lwx is less bright, the energy ejected over time is greater since the explosion has blazed on for years and continues to do so. The room stinks of blood and decay.The brightest explosion ever detected from Earth so far is the gamma ray burst GRB 221009A, and that lasted only about ten hours. Crying out, she tries to push herself back up against the weight of air.

She spins with it, not knowing which direction she faces when suddenly the spinning stops and she is pushed to the floor by a heavy blow. Air surrounds her, separating her from him. A vortex of wind drags Star from the bed to the centre of the room. They sit on the narrow bed together, shaking.Īir crushes her. ‘It’s okay.’ Satori grips her shoulders and pulls her up towards him. It punches Star’s ears and throat and chills her skin. The light flickers again then fails and the cell falls into darkness. Star feels cold and unnaturally exposed in her nakedness. Satori sits up and touches her shoulder, instructing her to stay down. Star clings to Satori as freezing air whips around the cell, like a hurricane. Energy crackles around the room, making their hair stand on end. His steady heart beat calms her.Ī fluorescent strip light flickers above them like a strobe on a dance floor. She kisses his lips and snuggles into his chest. She strokes his beautifully pointed face and gazes into his eyes. ‘We’ll figure it out.’ He places his body between her and the door, smiling gently. ‘Run? I feel that’s all I have ever done. For one second she hates him for being right. Anything is possible. That is his law, not hers, and yet her reality confirms its validity in the same way the law of gravity is confirmed by her inability to float above this itchy and uncomfortable bed.

Her heart beats and her lungs draw oxygen from the air. She has seen this manic look before: the look that says anything is possible.

Black Sun by Carmilla Voiez