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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered an unprecedented flash of light from a galaxy cluster approximately eight billion light-years away. This phenomenon brightened over 100 days before dimming and ultimately disappearing. Despite extensive observations and discussions at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach, California, the nature of this light remains unidentified, leaving scientists puzzled about its origin and characteristics.

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Almost three years ago, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope were perusing a cluster of galaxies about eight billion light-years from Earth when they came upon a flash of light unlike anything they had seen before.

Over the next 100 days, the object gradually brightened. Then it spent another 100 days growing dimmer, until it finally vanished from view.

Astronomers speaking last week at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Long Beach, Calif., still have no idea what it was — or is...
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