Dying stars’ cocoons might explain fast blue optical transients
Journal Reference: Ore Gottlieb, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Raffaella Margutti. Shocked jets in CCSNe can power the zoo of fast blue optical transients. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2022; DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac910 So hot that they glow blue, these mysterious objects are the brightest known optical phenomenon in the universe. But with only a few discovered … Read more