UM-Bot Posted June 30, 2020 #1 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Astronomers have been left scratching their heads after a huge star they were observing mysteriously vanished. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337885/mystery-as-massive-star-simply-disappears 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Commander Travis Posted June 30, 2020 #2 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) Oh, just this kind of thing happened in a book I read. An alien race constructed a giant force field around it. That may have been what happened here. Edited June 30, 2020 by Montmorency the Dog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damien99 Posted June 30, 2020 #3 Share Posted June 30, 2020 39 minutes ago, UM-Bot said: Astronomers have been left scratching their heads after a huge star they were observing mysteriously vanished. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337885/mystery-as-massive-star-simply-disappears So question with a situation like this a star that huge is it that one only missing or all the stars in that galaxy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 30, 2020 #4 Share Posted June 30, 2020 8 minutes ago, Damien99 said: So question with a situation like this a star that huge is it that one only missing or all the stars in that galaxy? Even if you haven't bothered to read the article, the title is perfectly clear, "Mystery as massive star simply disappears". It says star, singular. Why would that possibly mean "all the stars in that galaxy"? If you local news paper says, "massive cat missing" do you think, "I wonder if all the cats neighbourhood are missing" or just the one that they bothered to mention in the headline? 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 30, 2020 #5 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Just now, seanjo said: Wait til it's dark and cloudless, look up... If you can see a dwarf galaxy 75 million light years away with the naked eye then you have super powers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorg Posted June 30, 2020 #6 Share Posted June 30, 2020 I'd be more apt to believe it had lost luminosity, after all it was 2.5 million times brighter than the sun. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted June 30, 2020 #7 Share Posted June 30, 2020 1 hour ago, South Alabam said: I'd be more apt to believe it had lost luminosity, after all it was 2.5 million times brighter than the sun. It would still be a previously unknown phenomenon for a massive star to lose it's luminosity. It would probably, also, defy the laws of physics. A sudden loss of luminosity would imply that the nuclear reactions which make a star glow had stopped. However if the nuclear reactions at the core of a massive star stop internal pressure drops, gravity wins and the core collapses. This leads to a supernova... and it is the very lack of a supernova that is the mystery to start with. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendy Demon Posted June 30, 2020 #8 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Stars don't just 'dissappear' so maybe it is being obstructed by another body? Isn't there a thing called 'lensing' or something when an object warps the light from another body? Perhaps this star is being affected, on random intervals by a black hole or something..that is where science should come it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vorg Posted June 30, 2020 #9 Share Posted June 30, 2020 2 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said: It would still be a previously unknown phenomenon for a massive star to lose it's luminosity. It would probably, also, defy the laws of physics. A sudden loss of luminosity would imply that the nuclear reactions which make a star glow had stopped. However if the nuclear reactions at the core of a massive star stop internal pressure drops, gravity wins and the core collapses. This leads to a supernova... and it is the very lack of a supernova that is the mystery to start with. I was just agreeing with the article: The older observations seem to indicate that the star was experiencing giant eruptions, in which material is lost from the star. These are thought to have stopped sometime after 2011. Luminous blue variable stars such as this one are prone to such outbursts over the course of their life. They cause the star to lose mass and lead to a dramatic peak in brightness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trelane Posted June 30, 2020 #10 Share Posted June 30, 2020 We've lost a star? Time to head back to the Jedi temple with master Obi-Wan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seti42 Posted June 30, 2020 #11 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Azathoth ate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankenhunter Posted July 1, 2020 #12 Share Posted July 1, 2020 (edited) The aliens just finished up their Dyson Sphere? It could happen. .00000000001% says it's possible. Edited July 1, 2020 by Hankenhunter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankenhunter Posted July 1, 2020 #13 Share Posted July 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Bendy Demon said: Stars don't just 'dissappear' so maybe it is being obstructed by another body? Isn't there a thing called 'lensing' or something when an object warps the light from another body? Perhaps this star is being affected, on random intervals by a black hole or something..that is where science should come it. Science, smience. It was aliens I tell you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon the frog Posted July 1, 2020 #14 Share Posted July 1, 2020 3 hours ago, Bendy Demon said: Stars don't just 'dissappear' so maybe it is being obstructed by another body? Isn't there a thing called 'lensing' or something when an object warps the light from another body? Perhaps this star is being affected, on random intervals by a black hole or something..that is where science should come it. I'm thinking the same thing it could be hidden behind something maybe far closer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim Reaper 6 Posted July 1, 2020 #15 Share Posted July 1, 2020 6 hours ago, Waspie_Dwarf said: It would still be a previously unknown phenomenon for a massive star to lose it's luminosity. It would probably, also, defy the laws of physics. A sudden loss of luminosity would imply that the nuclear reactions which make a star glow had stopped. However if the nuclear reactions at the core of a massive star stop internal pressure drops, gravity wins and the core collapses. This leads to a supernova... and it is the very lack of a supernova that is the mystery to start with. So what is your opinion concerning this situation, that it was swallowed by a Black Hole without the traditional super Nova that should accompany the event? Or that the Stars brightness is being obscured by dust like one of the Astronomers proposed. In my opinion and please don't laugh, if neither one of the events above explains it, I think that another celestial body may be blocking our view like what we call an eclipse here in our Solar System. Now, I understand if this is the case the object would have to be tremendously hugh, and with that in mind, there is no telling how long it could obscure our view of that star, but if this true at some point that Star will be clearly visible again at some point in the future. Peace 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiXilver Posted July 1, 2020 #16 Share Posted July 1, 2020 What we know is a drop... What we assume to know is a bucket. What we're ignorant of... is an ocean. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrofloyd Posted July 1, 2020 #17 Share Posted July 1, 2020 A black hole swallowed it. First rule in the universe: Don't go too close to the black holes!. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkmattermonkey Posted July 13, 2020 #18 Share Posted July 13, 2020 It’s referred to as an “unnova”. A rapid conversion of a super-Hyper massive star, that avoids the nova expansion part and goes directly into a collapsed core and black hole, absorbing all (surrounding) light in the process. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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