Every now and again in astronomy you find an object that appears to be impossible. You can make, say, two very clear factual statements about it call them A and B but the two are mutually contradictory. If A is true, B cannot, and vice-versa.
Some people the kind who make breathless YouTube videos with terrible lighting and use the word "sheeple" a lot claim that all of science of wrong.
A scientist, though, looks at this and says, "Huh. One or both of my assumptions must be wrong."
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