NASA Discovers Strange Glowing Object Emitting 10 Million Times More Energy than the Sun – Violates Laws of Physics

FLORIDA – For astronomer NASA found a strange glowing object that emits about 10 million times more energy than sun . Luminous objects known as ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULX) violate existing laws of physics.

New observations, published in The Astrophysical Journal from NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), record this strange, glowing object in deep space. A source of high-energy X-ray energy, this is codenamed M82 X-2.

So far, scientists have thought that ULXs, or ultraluminous x-ray sources, are black holes. However, M82 X-2 is an object known as a neutron star. Neutron stars are the remnant, dead core of stars like the sun.

Neutron stars are so dense that the gravity on their surface is about 100 trillion times stronger than Earth’s. This intense gravity means that any material pulled onto the surface of the dead star will have an explosive effect.

“A marshmallow dropped on the surface of a neutron star will hit it with the energy of a thousand hydrogen bombs,” according to NASA, quoted by SINDOnews from the Space page, Wednesday (10/5/2023).

The new study finds that M82 X-2 consumes about 1.5 of Earth’s matter each year, siphoning it from neighboring stars. When this amount of matter hits the surface of a neutron star, the energy is enough to produce the extraordinary brightness that astronomers observe.

However, this amount of energy released violates a theoretical law of physics known as the Eddington limit, which determines how bright something of a given size is. Typically, ULX alone regularly exceeds the energy limit by about 100 to 500 times.