Something Passed Between Earth and a Star. The Star Got Extremely Bright For an Hour.
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Something passed between Earth and a Star. The star got extremely bright for an hour. Then it went back to normal. Meanwhile, every star around it stayed exactly the same. When astronomers worked through what could cause an event like that, it looked like something had drifted between Earth and that star. What could it be? A primordial black hole or a variable star doing its thing? 0:00 Something Passed Between Us and a Star 1:00 Gravitational Microlensing 3:30 Possible Explanations 4:40 A Primordial Black Hole? 6:20 Another Explanation Sources: NASA, ESA Papers: Renee Key’s paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.19375 Mróz and Udalski’s paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2606.19442 Narrated by: Mathew McQuinn Music: Artlist Ltd Buy us a cup of coffee: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8SGU9hQEaJpsLuggAhS90Q/join When you buy from our store, you support us: https://my-store-10522d3.creator-spring.com/ Visit our website: https://www.territoryspace.com/ Subscribe to Territory - https:
Tags: Something Passed Between Earth & A Star, primordial black hole, rogue planets, roman space telescope, dark energy survey, gravitational microlensing, black hole, solar system, sky survey, variable star, astronomy, space, research
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