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Presumed supernova is actually something much rarer -- Science & Technology -- Sott net

© Image is courtesy of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Screenshot of the NASA-produced animation showing a giant star being slowly devoured as it orbits the galaxy’s central black hole. Pasadena, CA In a case of cosmic mistaken identity, an international team of astronomers revealed that what they once thought was a supernova is actually periodic flaring from a galaxy where a supermassive black hole gives off bursts of energy every 114 days as it tears off chunks of an orbiting star. Six years after its initial discovery reported in The Astronomer s Telegram by Carnegie s Thomas Holoien the researchers, led by Anna Payne of University of Hawai i at Mānoa, can now say that the phenomenon they observed, called ASASSN-14ko, is

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