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The discovery, based on an usual event dubbed ‘the Cow,’ may offer astronomers a new way to spot infant compact objects. A powerful cosmic burst dubbed AT2018cow, or ‘the Cow,’ was much faster and brighter than any stellar explosion astronomers had seen. They have now determined it was likely a product of a dying star that, in collapsing, gave birth to a compact object in the form of a black hole or neutron star.

In June of 2018, telescopes around the world picked up a brilliant blue flash from the spiral arm of a galaxy 200 million light years away...