Light rays are the fastest in speed; Stars rays outgoing have blue shifi
while incoming and red shift when crossing over. Hubble the scientists only
said (telescope today is named only after him) that it is a multiverse but
India Vedas and Puranas are myths. Multiverses are running in a regular
phase but now say it appears to retard. So on so forth. But today we
read that NASA had found some light glowing so high and bright that defied
the science theory they developed. It is under the investigation Pl read
below:   K R  IRS 14423
"*NASA Confirms That Cosmic Object Is so Bright That It Defies Laws of
Physics*

*It's definitely not an optical illusion.*

[image: NASA]

Image by NASA

If you're looking for some of the brightest objects in the cosmos, squint
no further than ultra-luminous x-ray sources, or ULXs.

These loci of overwhelming luminosity have long puzzled astronomers because
they at least *appear* to exceed what's known as the Eddington limit, which
restricts how bright an object can be based on its mass, by up to 500 times.

Many scientists, though, simply chalked this up to an optical illusion. But
now, in a first-of-its-kind study published in *The Astrophysical Journal*
<https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac8d67>, astronomers
used NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telephone Array (NuSTAR) to observe a ULX
designated M82 X-2 that's *ten million* times brighter than the Sun, and
confirmed that it does actually exceed the Eddington limit — no tricks of
the light required.

Better yet, they believe they've uncovered the mechanism behind their
stupefying
brightness: magnetic fields so ridiculously strong, they're impossible to
emulate in a lab.

"These observations let us see the effects of these incredibly strong
magnetic fields that we could never reproduce on Earth with current
technology," said Matteo Bachetti, an astrophysicist at the Cagliari
Astronomical Observatory in Italy, in a NASA statement
<https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-study-helps-explain-limit-breaking-ultra-luminous-x-ray-sources>
.

But first, let's unpack the Eddington limit. In a nutshell, it describes a
delicate balance between the outward push of an object's light-producing
radiation and the inward pull of its gravity, like in a star. If bright
enough, the outgoing photons of light can actually overwhelm the object's
gravity, preventing wayward matter from getting pulled into its orbit and
suspending them in equilibrium.

As such, astronomers used to think that ULXs were black holes that
surrounded themselves with enough gas and dust that gradually heated up
over time, eventually radiating light. This explanation would avoid the
Eddington limit being defied.

But in 2014, M82 X-2 was discovered to actually be a neutron star
<https://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/october/nasa-s-nustar-telescope-discovers-shockingly-bright-dead-star>,
the incredibly dense core of a once massive star that collapsed in on
itself without forming a black hole. As some of the densest objects in the
universe, neutron stars wield a gravitational pull about 100 trillion times
stronger than Earth's.

So instead, the light from the ULX may be produced by gases and dust being
smashed into the neutron star's surface at millions of miles per hour.

It's a ton of light, to put it, well, lightly. According to NASA, a
marshmallow-sized object hitting such a star would release the energy of a
thousand hydrogen bombs.

Proving that this would be enough to produce sufficient light to constitute
a ULX is a whole other can of worms, however.

For their study, the astronomers determined that M82 X-2 was siphoning
about 1.5 Earth masses of matter per year from a neighbouring star — a hell
of a lot, in other words. Through some clever calculations, they estimated
that all this mass bombarding the neutron's star surface would be bright
enough to match the brightness of real-world observations of the ULX,
proving that it does actually exceed the Eddington limit.

Previous hypotheses suggested that ULXs only appeared exceptionally bright
due to accreted gas and dust that formed cones that amplified their
underlying light source, especially if pointed toward the Earth.

Now, the astronomers are more confident in a recent hypothesis suggesting
that, at least with this ULX, the ludicrously strong magnetic field of its
neutron star could be distorting the shape of nearby atoms, allowing them
to slip through the otherwise overwhelming push by the star's radiating
photons and come crashing into its surface.

Whatever the cause, the astronomers are at least armed with ample proof
that the Eddington limit is being broken — but only further observations
will be able to vindicate their findings for ULXs at large.

"This is the beauty of astronomy," Bachetti said. "We cannot really set up
experiments to get quick answers. We have to wait for the universe to show
us its secrets."    KR IRS 14423

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