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Astronomers Detect 84 Mysterious Objects in Nearby Galaxies Unlike Anything They've Seen Before : ScienceAlert (opens in a new tab)

sciencealert.com · 2026-09-16

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Astronomers Detect 84 Mysterious Objects in Nearby Galaxies Unlike Anything They've Seen Before : ScienceAlert

sciencealert.com · 2026-09-16

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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedAstronomers have now found 84 mysterious objects in nearby galaxies that they named hypersoft X-ray sources.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedThe story says the sources may be extremely luminous, with some releasing hundreds of thousands to millions of times more energy than the Sun, even though Chandra sees only the faint low-energy X-ray tail of emission that is probably mostly extreme ultraviolet light.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedThe objects were identified in observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, and some were also detected by XMM-Newton; the team found between 7 and 21 sources in each of six galaxies, including Andromeda and M101.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe article says the objects could be white dwarfs, recently erupted novae, neutron stars, or black holes feeding on matter, and that hypersoft describes the unusual light rather than one single kind of object.View evidenceHide evidence

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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedThe story suggests that if even a fraction of the population are accreting, nuclear-burning white dwarfs, they could help provide part of the missing observational link for Type Ia supernova progenitors.View evidenceHide evidence

As stateda fraction of this large – and probably much larger hidden – hypersoft population

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Hypersoft X-ray sources as a low-energy class of luminous cosmic emitter

Nature Astronomy · 2026

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Identification of Wild-Simulated Ginseng Powder, Cultivated Ginseng Powder, Cultivated Ginseng Decoction Pieces, and Baoyuan Decoction Containing Wild-Simulated Ginseng and Cultivated Ginseng by UHPLC-Q-TOF-MS/MS and Non-Targeted Metabolite Profiling.

Journal of Separation Science · 2026 · PubMed

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XMM‐NewtonObservations of Ultraluminous X‐Ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies

The Astrophysical Journal · 2005 · Crossref

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